[IUG] Valid wild card searches in the WebPac

[Fred McIlvain <FRED dot McILVAIN at asu dot edu>]

I received the following note from a staff member:

I was putting an exercise together and wanted to use the "?" wildcard for this book:
The men and women we want

Last month, using wildcards worked fine in locating the book, doing a basic title search:  M?n and Wom?n We Want.

Now, if I drop-down to a title search and use M?n and Wom?n We Want, the search engine looks at M.N and can't find the book.

If I do a basic keyword search with "M?n AND Wom?n We Want" in quotations, the system finds nothing.

If I leave out M?N and do a keywork search, for "and Wom?n We Want", the search engine finds the book.

Is there a new rule about using the question mark wildcard in the first word in a title or keyword phrase search?

While looking through the Millennium manual, I found Basic Search Syntax Page # 101242.  I can't find that a question mark is a valid wildcard?

Any thoughts?




Fred McIlvain
Integrated Library System Coordinator
Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services
Arizona State University Libraries


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