John's comments
(member since Aug 21, 2007)
John's comments from the Goodreads Librarians group.
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David^Chadwick - Zen Buddhism (and related)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/803...
David^^Chadwick - medical
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/313...
David^^^Chadwick - sports
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/313...
Bill^Lee - various (likely multiple authors)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/106...
Bill^^Lee - erotica
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/313...
Bill^^^Lee - memoir
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/313...
John^Mole - poetry/fictionhttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/315...
John^^Mole - nonfiction
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/313...
I'd say info like that is better suited for an individual's review than belongs in the book details themselves.
Peter^Moore - travel narrativeshttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/309...
Peter^^Moore - various (likely more than one other author)
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/312...
Peter^Conrad - varioushttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/628...
Peter^^Conrad - health/medicine
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/312...
Pamela^Scott - nonfiction (U.S.)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/727...
Pamela^^Scott - memoir (Australian)
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/206...
Joe^Cawley - fiction (U.S.)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/206...
Joe^^Cawley - memoir (U.K.)
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/312...
Rachel^Howard - memoirhttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/118...
Rachel^^Howard - various
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/312...
Matthew^Sweeney - various (UK author)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/115...
Matthew^^Sweeney - nonfiction (US author)
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/312...
John^Harwood - literary fictionhttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/709...
John^^Harwood - journalism/politics
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/299...
I suspect there are more than two, but can only be certain that John "2 carets" Harwood is the one-off author of one book, so have only disambig'ed him out.
I'm far from new as a librarian, but hadn't noticed the "librarian comments" field option until recently, and have never used it. What types of things have y'all been putting in there? I ask as I'm afraid I've been possibly omitting data that might prove useful.
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll look into doing that!
Combining over two pages?I'm cleaning up Agatha Christie and running into an issue of "orphan" non-English titles on page 2, that can't seem to be combined into the main title grouping on page 1?
Thank you!
I added ISBN 9789504916154 - El Misterioso Mr Brown by Agatha Christie - but it doesn't appear on the (long!) list of her work when I go to combine it with the English book (The Secret Adversary).
Not Michael -- I understood the question, but did not put my response as specifically as you did - that "contributor" is necessary to clearly distinguish from (infer-able) "co-author", although I suppose with anthologies, contributors are co-authors.Cecile -- yes, a list of names could be inferred as contributors, but I don't see adding the title as "wrong" as per the original post was my point.
My two cents would be that adding multiple contributors does look "clunky", but it'd be useful for folks searching specific authors, of whom they're especially fond, for anything that person has written.
Thanks - I couldn't get that solution to work earlier, but now it does; I might go through later and add the contributors who have other works listed here as well (Sarah Vowell, Ha Jin, etc.).
"State by State" ISBN 0061470902 is a collection of 50 essays by 50 writers, with two co-editors, but it seems the system isn't set up to indicate that, so the best I could do was to have one person as "author" and one "editor" - is there something I'm missing?
Thanks!
