I use the advanced search form primarily to limit a search by Item Type. -Holly Holly Hancock Library Director Bridgton Public Library 207-647-2472 hollyh@bridgton.lib.me.us Quoting "Owen Leonard" <oleonard@myacpl.org>:

When was the last time you used the advanced search form, and why did you choose it over the default search?

Thanks,

Owen

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Hi-- Owen wrote:

When was the last time you used the advanced search form, and why did you choose it over the default search?

The very last time I used it was to see if we owned a periodical with a generic title: Short stories Our advanced search ( http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl ) let me select title phrase: Short stories And all of our periodical item types. (Turns out we didn't own it--yet! I'm cataloging the issues we've received with sea stories in them today.) I hear from our reference staff that they use the advanced search this way quite often, since often requested periodicals have titles with extremely common words (in our catalog) such as: Sea Rudder I use it in the staff client to search by barcode quite often as well, or for items with rather generic terms as access points that I know are shelved in distinctive locations (e.g., rare). I also use the advanced search (in the staff or public client) for author with a word (e.g., the author's name is something common like "Jones" and the title words are common ones like "Sea adventure" so the combo really narrows the results nicely). Hope this is helpful! Cheerio, heather ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian Cultural Resources and Museum Management Division San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park heather_hernandez@nps.gov 415-561-7032 (voice) 415-556-3540 (fax) http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/library-collections.htm "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg