Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

A librarian has taken it upon him- or herself to "clean up" this list: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/50...

He or she has recently deleted either entire book series when an omnibus is available, or has deleted all volumes but the first in the series.

Note well: when the list was created, there was not instruction to only list the first volume.

1. Is this a new Listopia policy?

2. Is such pruning a proper use of librarian privileges?

I don't believe it is Listopia "policy" to do that, but there are some lists where the description specifies that only one book in a series, or one book per author, should be added. The creator of the list is certainly allowed to specify that. I've never had a problem with that. What's the point of every book in a series clogging up a list?

Lobstergirl wrote: "I don't believe it is Listopia "policy" to do that, but there are some lists where the description specifies that only one book in a series, or one book per author, should be added. "

This list didn't have that notice.

In general I think people who add to the list should defer to the creator of the list, and they should abide by the description.

Hi! I found another troublesome situation some time ago.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3....

This list was called Best Science Fiction Books until some time ago and already had like 10000 voters.

The argument to change the list name and rules was that there were Fantasy books in it.

I pointed out to the guy who did it (not the list creator but a librarian) that you CAN erase books that obviously are not Sci-fi, but it didn't change anything.

What are you guys/gals opinions about this?

Are you saying the creator of the list was unavailable, or approved the change? Then what's done is ok.

Anything is technically 'ok' if the creator left the list open, rather than making it static. But I don't think it's *ethical* to change a list, either by adding irrelevant books or by changing the title to reflect those editions, w/out checking with the creator.

Cheryl in CC NV wrote: "Are you saying the creator of the list was unavailable"

In the case of that list, the creator's account has been deleted, so presumably they were/are unavailable.

ok