Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I've been in this field for 31 years, have a secondary degree in English and looooove books. Is there any way I can serve Goodreads?

Hi Sunny,

Well, most Goodreads Librarians aren't librarians in real life, although some are.

Librarians here work on the database of Goodreads to make it better.

Once you have 50 rated books you can apply to be a librarian.

Check out the librarian manual to see if you'd like to participate and to find out more about the things we do:

http://www.goodreads.com/help/librarian

It's a lot of fun so I hope that you'll join us when you've rated 50 or more books.

Thank you, Lisa. I have almost 30 under my belt on Goodreads. I will apply after that.
I am in a job with high schoolers for 1 1/2 years and its been my best in my whole career. I can work forever here. Librarians rock - Goodreads ones especially!

Hi Sunny,

After you become a GoodReads Librarian, I'd like to make a pitch for you to spend some time correcting Trivia questions.

By this I mean - inserting Book/Author links into trivia questions that do not have them.

The only way we can filter out Twilight questions, or Harry Potter questions, or questions is if most/all trivia questions have links incorporated into the question.

There are over 25,000 questions now, and I would guess that 12,000 have no book/author links.

Regards-

George

whew..sounds tough.
well, good luck lad! =P

Wow, George - I would love a more interesting job - just kidding.):

Sunny, while trivia needs attention, so do many books and authors. So if trivia's not your cup of tea, there's still plenty for you to do around here! :)

I was just approved as a librarian. I'm looking forward to helping out in any way that I can. I would be interested in helping out with trivia, if there is still a need there.

Trivia always needs work. Welcome to being a librarian, and have fun! :)

I'm not exactly sure how to edit trivia. I was able to edit some book info by clicking on "edit", but I don't see an "edit" link on the trivia questions. Thank you in advance.

Once a trivia question is flagged as incorrect or spoiler, there will be a bar that says "fix it, mark as correct, or delete it" and you can click "fix it" to edit a question. This obviously means that if you want to edit a question you have to mark it as incorrect first.

" Once a trivia question is flagged as incorrect or spoiler, there will be a bar that says "fix it, mark as correct, or delete it" and you can click "fix it" to edit a question."

hmmmm...I tried that, but it didn't seem to work. I marked it as incorrect, but it just went back to the question and had a notation that "someone has marked this question incorrect". So, now I have a question that I marked as incorrect and the quesion wasn't actually incorrect.

you have to answer the question so you can view the "question details" page

Thanks Nora! That worked!

I guess I can help out with the Trivia as well once I get some free time

I'm happy to be a new librarian and would love working on the trivia.

I, too, am a new librarian, and am lurking the group forum in the hopes that I'll pick up the info needed so that I can make a foray into the actual "helping out" mode. I live my life with the belief that if you throw enough mud at a wall, some of it will stick. :)

So, thank you all for your help. I help out behind the scenes on another book site so am pretty sure I'll catch on sooner than later.

Welcome! :)

George mentioned that the trivia needs some links added into the questions...
I'm willing to do some of the work, but how do I find the questions that don't have these links?

I'm still new enough to be stumbling through the questions and annoyed at some of the absolutely unchallenging or, to my mind, really silly questions on some of the "most popular" books. But I guess there's a place for simple in the trivia run, as well as challenging, and I hate to be a book snob.

What's the general feel on the plethora of questions on the HP and Twilight series?

Anna, I just start doing all the trivia questions and I fix the ones without links as I go. There are so many questions without links, you will almost immediately start finding things to fix. You can't do this and only answer "trivia about your books" because those already have links.

Bookczuk, I think the consensus is that most of us hate them, but there's not really anything we can do about them until GR works on some suggestions they've gotten about it in the Feedback group. This thread will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about how we feel about Twilight questions! :-)

As long as I don't have to read about Edward's alabaster beauty...

Okay JG, I can do that. I'm guessing I have to first flag the trivia question as not having a link, and then fix it? There doesn't seem to be a quick way to just add in a link.

That's the only way I know to do it, Anna. I wish there were a faster way.

It has been requested before in the Feedback group. Another vote heard from could only help.

I would make some suggestions, but apparently they've deleted their account.