Searching by Author

Another type of "Known Item" search is when you know the author's name.

Search Hints:

• It is best to know the full name of the author, especially if the author's surname is common.
• Always enter the family name (last name) first and optionally followed by the personal name (first name). For example, enter Jobs Steven to find books by Steven Jobs.
• Note that a comma seperating the first and last name was not necessary (however using one won't change your search results)

If you know the author's name and the title of the book you can search by both at once by using the "Author & Title" search in Muscat. This is useful if there are a lot of books that begin with the same phrase. In the example where we searched for A Writer's Reference, we could have search for both the author "Hacker" and the title "Writers Referenece" which would have returned one result instead of two.