[BNU] Two "search" questions
- From: Andy Shields <ashields2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: braillenote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:53:59 -0500
Hi, listers,
This isn't specifically about the use of the BrailleNote, but it
does involve something that many list members have experience
with-some of you, probably much more than I have-so I thought I
might get some specific advice or hints.
In general, I have an ongoing question about online searching-for
a piece of specific information or, more ofqen for me, book or
song information. Frequently, no matter how specifically I word
my search term, I'll get results that have nothing to do with any
part of those words or that phrase. I've often gotten answers
that are distantly related-they involve a word or, especially, a
name that's part of the term-but some aren't even close. (This
happens even when I check a box that says "exact wording only.")
Is there some way to write a search term or "string" so that it
only gives me exactly what I need? If there are no matching
results, I'm fine with that, it should just tell me, not take me
to somewhere out in left field. (I often get Bookshare results,
for instance, that include textbooks when the specific title or
author I want involves a work of fiction, and no, the textbooks
do not have an author's name or title that's any part of what I
asked for.)
Also, and more specifically, there's a situation with BARD that
baffles me, and it just happened again, which reminded me to ask
you all. I like to periodically check to see whether books by
writers I like have been added to the collection. There are
specific authors, and titles by them, which I know are part of
the database because I've found, or read, them before. When you
search for them from the BARD homepage, you get "no items found",
no matter which way you write the author's name (last name first
or vice versa), or how specifically and correctly you write the
title. But, if you go to the more general NLS website and
search, you'll find those titles, including the download
links that do, in fact, make them a
part of the BARD database. How are
both of these things possible?
Again, is there some other way to
enter this information that would
give me what I know are the correct
results? (If you're thinking, as I
logically have, that they're just
not up-to-date: the same titles
that didn't come up with a general
author or book-number search will,
sometimes, appear if you enter them
specifically once you know they're
there.) Have any of you experienced
this?
Andy
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