Browse search should have “contains” option

[Ruth Frasur]

Submitted by Elizabeth Thomsen

All of the browse searches are “Starts with” searches, which can be useful at times. But sometimes the user doesn’t remember the first word in the title, and being able to search and see a list of titles that contain a word or words would be very useful.

A “contains” search would be even more useful for searching subject headings, since they are often include several subdivisions, and it’s not easy to know which word will be first. Someone doing a subject browse on Iceland may be interested in any of these headings, not just the ones where Iceland is the first word:

Iceland — History
Folklore — Iceland
Akranes (Iceland)–Biography
Birds — Iceland

[Benjamin Kalish]

Agreed. This is fundamentally different from our basic search because the result set is not bibliographic records but strings of text representing the chosen facet (title, subject, etc.)

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