I only recently noticed that there is a browse button next to the such button. When you go there, one of the options is author and the letters of the alphabet. Selecting G, it says there are 1652 authors and only provides 25 per page. Fortunately, Gallo is only on page 4. Donald R. is in the list but no other Gallo. I'd say Jamie is ok in scanning Tina Gallo books. But I'd hate to try to find out if my old highschool friend Tina Grzbeniak ever wrote anything using this method.
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Ah, for the good old days. <sigh> Sue S.----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 2:45 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: was Children books in quie Now browsing by authorOn the old site, you used to be able to see all the authors beginning with a specific letter on one list. But they changed that on the new site to a 100 maximum, and that is not likely to change back. We've asked about this before and were told that it "stresses the database" to provide those long lists, so engineering won't do it. Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 3:33 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: was Children books in quie Now browsing by authorEven at 100, if there are 1600+ results (like the W's), that is unacceptable if there is no way to refine... Valerie On Jan 16, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Melissa Smith wrote:Valerie, mine shows 100 results per page on the browse by author page, but I don't see a box where I can change it to any other amount. Wonder why yours only shows 25? Perhaps that's something that needs to be directed towards Bookshare staff. Melissa Valerie Maples wrote:Except the first name I went to look for was Judd, and there were 835 results with no way to advance more than 25 at a time. Definitely not efficient... W's we re even worse at over 1600! Valerie On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Melissa Smith wrote:Jamie, there is definitely still a place to browse by author. Below is a link to the browse page, where you can choose to browse by any of the following topics: Authors Categories Languages New Books Most Popular Downloads NIMAC Books Special Collections Newspapers and Magazines Internationally Available. http://www.bookshare.org/browse/start Once you have selected author from this list, you should be taken to a page where you can select the first letter of the author's last name, which, then, takes you to the alphabetical listing of author's whose last name begins with that letter. BTW, there appears to be no Tina Gallo. There is a Donald R Gallo, with 2 books in the collection. Melissa Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:Judy, I didn't orginally start out putting Tina Gallo in the author box. I started out with Gallo, because if she uses a second last name or a middle initial, I wouldn't necessary get her with just Tina Gallo. Katherine Applegate is a good example of this. If you put Katherine Applegate in the author box you get only 30 results and Bookshare has way more of her books than that, maybe under Katherine A. Applegate or K.A. Applegate. That's why I like a least restrictive search term that will get me results but not too many results. If you're too specific you miss out. If I just put in Tina Gallo I get less results, but I can't be sure there aren't any Tina Gallo books in the collection because I am unfamiliar with this author and don't know if she writes under other forms of her name. That's why I originally did what I always do and just searched for Gallo. I wonder can you still go to an author alphabetical list page? 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