Help using The Lodestone Catalog

How Does It Work?

This is an active on-line catalog that works by a search engine. You choose what you'd like to see, and it will appear on your screen. It's easy.

• Enter a search term related to what you are looking for in the box which appears at the top of every screen. Press search.
• Your search term can be the producer, title, artist, actors, or any term related to what you are looking for.
• Use Advanced Search to search by Artist or Genre. Select the Artist and/or Genre you are looking for. If you wish, you can also narrow it down by keyword. Click on SEARCH.

Use Your Shopping Basket!

• Even if you're not planning to order, you can use the shopping-basket feature (see "How To Shop," below, for more instructions) to keep track of items you're interested in. You can view your list at any time, delete things, or add things.
  
• When you click on VIEW SHOPPING LIST, you see the full listings of all the items you've selected.
  
• Clicking on BUY SHOPPING LIST does not place an order -- it just shows you the order you have assembled. After reviewing your order, you can then proceed to place your order.

Handy Hints for better Keyword searching:

The Keyword search will find any items whose database listing contains an exact match for what you enter in the keyword box. Capitalization does not matter! The search engine will ignore any difference between upper and lower-case letters. But it will search for whatever combination of letters, numbers, symbols, and SPACES which you enter -- in the exact order you enter them.

You can enter a space first, or at the end, to narrow the search. If you search for "car" you will find listings which have the word "car" and any which have words like "carton" or "cardiac" or "scarface" or whatever. If you search for "car " with a space after the r, you won't see the listings containing the longer words. Searching for " car " with spaces on each side will eliminate "scarface" and the like.

Try entering a title, and go right to that product. Or enter the name of a person, like "ossman" (for Firesign Theatre fans) or "nimoy" (for Star Trek fans) and see every product they're associated with. Or enter a subject, like "world war II" or "travel" or "vampire" and see what comes up. Enter "award" to see all the award-winning productions.

We're always refining our listings, and feedback is always welcome. If you spot something that isn't working as expected, drop us an e-mail -- thanks!