[bksvol-discuss] My observations on new search
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:44:00 -0500
hi you all,
I think this definitely needs some more refining, but is neat.
I have found, at least with author, if you do the author's last name, first
name and surround it with ";'s you will get the results you wanted, I did
this for Gail Gibbons, and there is one book there I can't figure out why it
is there, but the rest made sense to me. However you can't do this with
title of book, "A Piece of Cake: A Memoir" by Cupcake Brown, does not show
up, but a huge variety of books some pertaining to cake do, smile.
Will try other things such as + or - between the search words, and shall see
what we come up with.
But so far, is definitely interesting.
I will tell you that my library has a great web search concept. It has a
combo box, with choices such as "word or phrase, title, author, subject, LOC
subject, series, and a few others I don't use. So you can tell it where
you want it to look. Word or phrase searches the entire entry for a book,
title just searches the title, author, the author and so on and so forth.
It works out quite well.
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
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Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel,
anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history
and you read it in your own terms. -Angela Carter, novelist and journalist
(1940-1992)
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