[bksvol-discuss] Searching challenges was Re: Re: Children books in quie
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:30:07 -0500
You know, I found something else that is interesting. Like google, if you
missspell something, or omit a letter, comma or the like from the title in
quotes or author in quotes you get a
"Did you mean" link, smile, very similar to google.
I think it is safe to say, that you can use quotes around the author's entire
name or title of said book and it seems to narrow things down quite a bit. But
indeed is a learning curve. Smile. Has anyone tried the + or - to add or
eliminate things, does that work. For example Gallo + Tina?
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)
----- Original Message -----
From: Jamie Yates, CPhT
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Children books in quie
Judy, I wanted to find out if there were any Tina Gallo books in the
collection. In the past if you put in both first and last name, you risked not
finding something that really was there, so I started with Gallo. Even with
Tina Gallo I still get 452 results which is too many results and most of them
not even close to relevant. In advanced search in the author box it's the same
thing.
I do this type of search maybe 50 times a week so it's way too much to sort
through. I get lists of books from the library and I get weekly and sometimes
daily lists of new books from all different various publishers and when I see
one that strikes my fancy I want to see if (a) I can get it from the library
and (b) if Bookshare has it. Because if I want to read it, then I want to make
sure others can read it too.
I've also in the past found that searching for a book's title is not always a
good plan especially if the title contains punctuation. I don't know if that is
true of the new search.
There has to be a simple way to do a search for an author's last name and get
a list of only authors with that last name. In this instance I want to see
what, if any, books Bookshare has by author Tina Gallo. Or by Gil Mcneil. Or
Judy Schachner. Or Rufus Butler Seder which, in the past, would be a nightmare
to search for because of the two last names so I would search for Rufus but I
can't do that now.
Why doesn't advanced search truly work as an advanced search? If I put
something in the author field it should only be searching for authors, right?
I gotta go get my stuff ready for the chat at 9 or I will still be on here
asking questions.
--
Jamie in Michigan
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