Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

C.S. Lewis
and
C.S. ルイス
Same author. In japanese editions there is C.S. ルイス... But I think we should combine it.

What we usually do for transliterated author names is set the romanized name as the primary author and the non-romanized name in the secondary author position. This allows all of the books to be combined under the same author profile but retains the transliteration so that people searching with that character set can find results.

It looks like that's what's been done for this book:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
and should be done for the others as well.

Goodreads has two listings of Kenzaburo Oe.
If you type in Kenzaburo Oe you are led to the incorrect one, or rather the incomplete one.
But if you type Kenzaburō Ōe, you find the real Kenzaburo. Now either someone needs to sort out the disambiguation of the two, combine, or delete.
Please help?

Working on 'em.

Hello , I am a new librarian .
Please , I want more details about this subject , that I want to combine this book
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89...
with its Arabic translation
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76...
the author has two pages , one with her name in Latin letters , and the other with Arabic letters , so what should I do exactly ?

rivka wrote: "Working on 'em."

Thx, it's a bit of a sticky situation isn't it?

Thando, I think I got it worked out, mostly.


Rasha, the usual workaround for that is to have the Latin spelling listed first on all editions, and the Arabic one in the second author slot for all the Arabic editions. That allows the editions to be combined but for people to find the author.

Thx, I'll take a look at it.

Rivka , Thanks
I will try to do it :)
anther question , Can the two pages of the author be combined together , I mean ; can it be arranged so that the latin letters written name & the Arabic one be reformatted so they would lead to the one page with double language data ?

rivka wrote: "Thando, I think I got it worked out, mostly.


Rasha, the usual workaround for that is to have the Latin spelling listed first on all editions, and the Arabic one in the second author slot for all ..."

I find that the problem with the Kenzaburo Oe, is that when you search for him you NEED to appy the specific characters Kenzaburō Ōe, otherwise you can't find him using a normal keyboard that types: Kenzaburo Oe.
Is there anyway to solve this?

Not until the oft-requested aka feature is created.

rivka wrote: "Thando, I think I got it worked out, mostly.


Rasha, the usual workaround for that is to have the Latin spelling listed first on all editions, and the Arabic one in the second author slot for all ..."

I got it & saw Cait's example , but For not making any mistakes & to be sure , is this general ?
I mean if the original book is the Arabic one , should the 1st author name be the Arabic or the English one on the English version ? , in other words should I fix the Arabic or the English book’s data in this case ?
For the idea of combing an author’s multiple languages web pages with translated name into one (the manual speaks only about Latin spelling),so that all fans & news be in one place , is it impossible ?

Right now it's impossible, but we have been promised an "aka" (also known as) feature that will make it possible. Unfortunately, it's not clear when we'll get it, as the programming to enable it is proving quite tricky.

In general, assuming that the books have been translated into English, we have been putting the Latin spelling first. Of course, of the books only exist in Arabic, there's no need to have an English version of the author at all.

I got it , Thanks again :)

OK, new librarian here with a question.

I got this Portuguese edition of I am Legend, which includes 5 other Matheson stories. It is currently combined with other editions of the novel, but I wonder: should it?

The question can be generalized: what's the policy regarding combining editions that do not have the same contents?

Many of the editions of I am Legend contain other stories. I have this this edition which contains 10 additional stories. However, if your edition only has five other stories, it should not be combine with the editions that have ten. For story collections, anthologies, etc., they are only combined if the contain the exact same stories. (It's ok to combine if the only difference is the introductory material, foreword etc.)

It appears yours should be separated, but since it has the same title, you should add a librarian note after separating. Post back here if you need any help!

Done. Thanks.

When you type "Scythe" in the search engine- you get original ebook copy plus you can then click on one other edition of the paperback version of "Scythe". However, when you type the ISBN number into the search engine, you get "Scythe" paperback version but not the same one that is linked to the ebook. I've tried to combine all editions and so far I've been unsuccessful. I can combine the ebook with one of the paperback versions but cannot combine it with the other ghost paperback version.

Since I'm new to the librarian role, I don't want to screw it up so I thought I'd send you all a msg of "help". This one is frustrating me!

Would you combine a "limited collector's edition" of a book with the other editions?

Willaful wrote: "Would you combine a "limited collector's edition" of a book with the other editions?"

I almost always would, yes. It does depend on whether extra material is profuse perhaps.

Michelle,

"Scythe" is now fixed. Both versions of M.K. Mancos's name were wrong that's why you couldn't combine. I'm amazed I hadn't noticed before as I have several of her books, including Scythe.

Sandra, thank you, fixing this became personal to me...lol. I appreciate the help.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82...
and
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85...
the first one is the same book expanded , what should be done ?

Yes, they get combined.

Thanks :)