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Basic Searching - Author

You can also search by author's name or author's last name. Let's search the Catalog for a book by Stephen King, author of suspense novels.

Click Author's Name in the search type box.
Type king stephen for your search terms. (See Figure 11)

Make sure you enter names as follows:

last name

first name or first initial

Examples: dickens charles	NOT	charles dickens
rowling j k	NOT	j k rowling
bradford barbara taylor	NOT	barbara taylor bradford

The Catalog is not case sensitive, which means that you can use lower-case letters when typing names, places, or things that are normally capitalized.

Figure 11

Our catalog search for books by Stephen King reveals that there are 39 items where King is the author. (See Figure 12 below.)

Figure 12

Scroll down the list to see which entries interest you. When you find one, write down the call number and go to the library stacks to find the book.

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