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Book & Author Page Issues > ISBN 0813822181 unsearchable?

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message 1: by William (new)

William Mego (willmego) | 3 comments The book From Prairie to Corn Belt: Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century
by Allan G. Bogue, ISBN-10 0813822181 seems to be only findable via ISBN search. Although I can NOW find it by searching the Author (I swear I couldn't two days ago) I cannot get the book to come up when I search by title or title keywords. Is this an addressable problem, or is this some manifestation of a search algorithm problem and thus out of our reach?


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It's so strange, I can find it only using the first or the second part of the title as keywords.


message 3: by Ioanna (new)

Ioanna (alyxya) | 9 comments I found it just fine using:
prairie corn
prairie corn farming
prairie corn farming iowa
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message 4: by rivka, Former Moderator (last edited Dec 07, 2011 12:59PM) (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
This is not a Librarian issue; it's Feedback one. (I understand why you thought it might go here.) However, you may have better luck searching without the colon. The search appears to get confused by punctuation marks.


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