Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Some errors I've encountered with first publication dates, as well as other areas as I noted them.

The Anubis Gates
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83...

published: December 1st 1983 by Ace Books
first published 1983

Cover:
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images...

Last Call
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95...

first published 1992
literary awards:
1993 Locus Awards Winner (Fantasy)
1993 World Fantasy Award, Best Novel

Expiration Date
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...

published: March 1995 by HarperCollins
first published 1995

Earthquake Weather
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95...

first published 1997

King Rat
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

first published 1998

The Scar
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93...

first published 2002

Iron Council
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97...

first published 2004

Greyweather, I got the dates and the awards.

Other GR librarians, Please take care of the cover for the first book. I don't have the ability to edit cover images so covers I add are not always of top quality. Thank you very much.

Got the cover image.

Thank you both.

Got another one.

Tea with the Black Dragon
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77...

first published 1983

Also, it won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1983.

Greyweather, Got it.

Edit: By the way, more originally published dates are incorrect than correct and there are librarians working on them regularly.

Should I not look for them then?

Greyweather, Feel free to look for them and post requests to change them. It's just that you're going to find many, that's all.

Greyweather, Also, by the time you note & post them with links you could have corrected them yourself. You are eligible (rated over 50 books) to apply for librarian status. if you have interest, you can become a librarian and change them as you see them. Just fyi.

Speaking of "First Published" errors, before I go mucking anything up, should that reflect the first publication date of the text of the book, or the first publication of that specific *edition* of the book? I could easily see arguments either way, and the Librarian Manual doesn't seem to address this issue. Hard to standardize if we're not all following the same standard.

Thanks for checking, Keith! It's the first publication of any edition of the book. In fact, when you have several editions combined, editing the first publication date for any of them sets it for all of them (although editions combined later don't get updated when they're combined, which is a shame).