[PW] Boolean Search Experts...Arise!

[Sheryl Anderson]

Try something like this under the boolean search tab.   mat=audiobook and au>=cles and ta=j  

mat=audiobook  gives you audiobooks.  (The material type operator is system specific so change that if your audiobooks are called something other than just audiobook.)

au>=cles should give authors greater than or equal cles, but it does seem to search first names as well as last names.  I think au=cles* would also work.  

ta=j limits the target audience to juvenile.  

There's a pretty good help section on Boolean searching under the help tab.  That's where I found this.  I hope this helps.  


Sheryl Anderson



----- Original Message ----
From: "mtknight at mail.usf.edu" <mtknight at mail.usf.edu>
To: list at project-wombat.org
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 6:32:00 AM
Subject: [PW] Boolean Search Experts...Arise!


Hi 
everyone,

We 
got 
a 
strange 
request 
that 
I 
cannot 
seem 
to 
find 
a 
perfect 
answer 
for.
Here 
it 
is:

A 
patron 
wants 
to 
search 
Children's 
audiobooks 
by 
author, 
but 
only 
wants
the 
results 
to 
show 
CL 
and 
beyond. 
He 
specificall 
mentioned 
Clery.

Now, 
I 
just 
can't 
seem 
to 
make 
him 
perfectly 
happy. 
He 
wants 
the 
first
result 
to 
be 
CLES 
or 
beyond.

Any 
ideas 
how 
to 
narrow 
this 
search 
this 
deeply?

Thank 
you 
so 
much!

Matt


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