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Jan 12, 2010 10:32AM
I noticed that the comix artist/author Seth has listed under his books a few titles having to do with the occult which do not appear to be graphic novels. Given the subject matter of the rest of the more-famous Seth's work, I'm fairly certain he did not write these books. The librarian manual says to put an extra space between one of the author's first and last names in order to distinguish them, but for obvious reasons, this isn't possible. Is there a policy already in place for dealing with this?
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I think that at this moment there is no way to distingwish between mononymous authors. edit:
I see that Library of Congress have shelved the books of the author of occult works under "Seth (Spirit)". What do other librarians think - should we create such profile?
Russ wrote: "Is there a policy already in place for dealing with this?"
Leave them until we have better disambig/aka features.
I'm not a fan of the "Seth (Spirit)" solution, and it doesn't work as a general thing.
Leave them until we have better disambig/aka features.
I'm not a fan of the "Seth (Spirit)" solution, and it doesn't work as a general thing.


