OK. So I go to my library today to get an inter-library loan so that I can read Dragonsteel.
I go to the librarian and say, "I want to check out a book called Dragonsteel. It's one word and steel is spelled with two e's instead of e-a. It's by Brandon Sanderson. The only copy is at "Harold B. Lee Library at BYU Provo."
She commences to search IDAHO libraries only and says, "Well I'm not finding anything, let me try it with two words."
I begin to get slightly flustered and say, "You only searched in Idaho. The only copy is in Utah. You have to widen the search, and it's only ONE word."
She then pulls up the list of books called Dragon Steel in Idaho libraries and asks me if any of these are it.
I politely say, "No, none of those are by Brandon Sanderson, and you're still only searching in Idaho."
She then huffs at me and switches her search to include all of the area that would include Utah AND Idaho. She then searches for Dragon Steel again.
She pulls up a huge list and starts going through them and asks me to point it out if she gets to it.
I say, "It's only one word. It won't show up that way."
She retorts, "Last time I searched that I got no results."
I replied flatly, "That was when you searched only Idaho."
She glared at me and removed the space. The only result that showed on the screen. "Dragonsteel: Sanderson, Brandon. Location : BYU"
She looks at the screen and says, her voice becoming bubbly, "Oh look, it's at BYU."
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