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Searching the Online Catalog by Author

When you have the name of an author and wish to obtain a list of items written by that particular author, select the author option. Most library catalogs require that you enter the author's last name first, as we do in the example below.

 

Online catalog search entry screen with author selected and John Storm Roberts in the search box
 

 

In this example, if you perform an AUTHOR search for books by John Storm Roberts(entered as Roberts, John Storm), you might find the following:

 

Catalog search for author, with results

 

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