[bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad scan Wheel of Time 3
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:59:34 -0600
Hi Evan,
When I do a simple search I put the author's name in the author field, last
name first, and the whole title in the title field, and leave the rest of
the fields blank. That works if I want to see all of the formats that
particular book is in.
Hoope that helps,
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:31 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad scan
Wheel of Time 3
> Hi, again, Sue. I forgot to mention that when I did a search to find out
if
> "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' was available, I just did a
simple
> search, no key words, with Harry Potter in the title field, and 'all' in
the
> Material Types field selected. I got 26 records. I did not read through
> them all, but links to the Braille versions of several Harry Potter - or
> Potter-related - books came up. Geepers, Goblet of Fire is ten volumes!
So
> tell me that NLS's search engine is not flaky.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:12 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad scan
> Wheel of Time 3
>
>
> >
> > In the simple search, Evan, I make it better if I put the author's name,
> > then put Web Braille (it says to make it two words) in the keyword
field.
> >
> > Sue S.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:29 PM
> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad
scan
> > Wheel of Time 3
> >
> >
> >> As I said to Tony, I was using the simple search and selected 'all' in
> >> the
> >> material types field and came up with nothing in the web Braille
format.
> >> Then I selected Braille in the material types field and still got
> >> nothing.
> >> Then I tried with less confidence the 'electronic resource' selection
and
> >> got nothing. I still feel that one or more - at least the 'all'
> >> selection
> >> should have brought up the web braille title.
> >> But that just isn't the way it works. I think it's bad design, but
since
> > I
> >> didn't design it, nor am I in line to redesign it, I guess that's the
way
> >> I'll have to remember to use it in the future. It is interesting,
> >> because
> > I
> >> have seen titles - complete with links - for Braille titles under the
> > 'all'
> >> material types selection before, so it seemed reasonable to me that
> > Jordan's
> >> "New Spring" should show up there, but it didn't.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the tip.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:25 AM
> >> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad
scan
> >> Wheel of Time 3
> >>
> >>
> >> > It might help to know that you write web braille in the field called
> >> > key
> >> > word. If you only give the author's name, the search will tell you
> >> > about
> >> > all the books by that author in all formats.
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Tony Baechler" <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:26 AM
> >> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad
> > scan
> >> > Wheel of Time 3
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> You're probably using the wrong NLS search engine. You have to use
> >> >> the
> >> >> miltiple term search. You select Jordan Robert in the first field
and
> >> >> select author. You put "web braille" in the second field and select
> >> >> note. You leave the third field blank and search. That is the only
> >> >> way
> >> >> of finding Web-Braille titles. Electronic resource won't work. I
> > don't
> >> >> care about talking books so I can't help there but it's probably a
> >> >> similar procedure. Write off list if you still have problems and I
> >> >> can
> >> >> send you the url.
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