Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Just a reminder: if you disambiguate an author with spaces, please put a statement in the author's bio indicating this! The standard is:

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

I try to put at least a simple bio statement in as well, with whatever information I used to differentiate between the authors in the first place (even if it's just something like "Jane Doe is an author of forensics textbooks" or "Jane Doe is a horror novelist").

Also, I put a librarian note (the "add a librarian note" option on the edit author page) indicating that this is a disambiguated author for the benefit of librarians like me who often jump right to the combine page without looking at the bio. I use notes like:

This is Jane^Doe, forensics textbooks.

Good reminder. Should all this go in the Librarian manual?

Cait and Rebecca, Good points. Yes, if that information is not already in the librarian manual, it would be an excellent addition.