I am attempting to create a collection with multiple authors. But how do I add an author like Hamilton Smith or F.G. Patterson when there are other authors with the same last name?
You can specify the author's whole name if you put quotes around it. Authors are usually specified "Lastname, Firstname" in the author column, but Logos seems smart enough to figure it out if you put the first name first.
Here's an example using "Lastname, Firstname":
Same collection with "Firstname Lastname" order:
You would need to use quotes and the author's name as found in Logos though you can put the first name first.. There might be times the quotes wouldn't need the quotes but if you are stringing together a number of names as below you'll need them.
For example author:"Wright, N.T." OR "Shawn Wright"
Thanks, Mark.
Thanks, Todd.
You would need to use quotes and the author's name as found in Logos though you can put the first name first.. There might be times the quotes wouldn't need the quotes but if you are stringing together a number of names as below you'll need them. For example author:"Wright, N.T." OR "Shawn Wright"
If you're going to do that, you need parentheses, e.g., author:("Wright, N.T." OR "Shawn Wright")
It probably wouldn't matter in most cases, but technically what Mark's example is doing is looking for all books where the author is "Wright, N.T." OR the name "Shawn Wright" appears anywhere in the metadata (Title, Author, Publisher, Description, etc.). If Shawn Wright happened to be mentioned in the title or description of some other book that wasn't by him, you'd pick up more books than you wanted. It's probably unlikely to cause a problem with the Author field, except perhaps for authors about whom biographies have been written, but with Title I could imagine it happening more often (many titles are simple generic phrases which could also appear in the description of some other book). Best to get in the habit of saying exactly what you mean, and using the parentheses.
