Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Very pleased to have been given Librarian status, thought it would be nice to say hello to you all. I'm going to concentrate initially on working through my own collection - some errors crept in during import, and I've spotted a few mistakes in the listings on my favourite authors.

I'm sure I'll be asking for help and advice as I go!

Welcome! :)

Welcome.

Just for your reference,
* https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/2...
* https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

feel free to disagree (I do), but do follow it.

Hello everybody, hope i can get some advice in here :)

i have applied for Librarian, it has been more than a week, how long does it usually take for the process to finish?

Welcome Duncan, just ask/post a new topic if you have any questions.

I think I can relate to message 3. Be careful when dealing with authors and combining editions, thinks are not very obvious.

Good luck ;)



Avinash wrote: "i have applied for Librarian, it has been more than a week, how long does it usually take for the process to finish? "

Applying doesn't automatically means you will be given the status. You can always reapply again, and in the meantime you can provide a lot of help to other librarians which is anyway part of our work and will help you understand the process. There are so many books that need researching or content and titles to combine/separate properly.

Hello there, Duncan, welcome :)

Avinash wrote: "i have applied for Librarian, it has been more than a week, how long does it usually take for the process to finish?"

You only get notified if accepted. At time you applied, goodreads may not even have needed more librarians or more offering whatever you offered on your application—your application may just be pending until needed rather than denied. Or may have been denied (no way to tell, only staff know and they keep it quiet).

Hi I'm sure I should have said hi way before now, I'm not the best with introductions but I'll probably just try to add any books I've read that aren't on the site. Thank you for allowing me librarian rights I really appreciate It.

Hi,
I'm new to the librarians group but I have been a member of goodreads for the better part of a year. I am actually studying to be a librarian. If there are any librarian in this group I would love some advice.

Welcome Mary,
My advice is to read the manual (not necessarily all at once but the parts you need to know for adding a book and/or doing the particular edits you want to do), and to read the threads here and see how other librarians solved requests, by taking a look at the changelogs etc. And to ask questions whenever you are not sure.

Mary wrote: "Hi,
I'm new to the librarians group but I have been a member of goodreads for the better part of a year. I am actually studying to be a librarian. If there are any librarian in this group I would l..."

Joining the Librarians Group does not make you a GR librarian.
If you like advice about being a librarian in real life, this group is not the place for that.

Oh sorry, I misunderstood.

Avinash wrote: "i have applied for Librarian, it has been more than a week, how long does it usually take for the process to finish?"

I know the first time I applied the bit where I said why I wanted to be a librarian disappeared. Dunno if it was a GR glitch or if I accidentally deleted it, but that bit is very important. If you have to apply again, fill it out with care. & good luck! :)

Avinash wrote: "i have applied for Librarian, it has been more than a week, how long does it usually take for the process to finish?"

I applied for Librarian status as well and haven't heard back to either accept or reject me. I'm still waiting myself.

You won't hear anything if your application has been rejected. Mine took a few weeks to be accepted. They may just not need any more librarians at this time.

Hello Goodreads Librarians, I'm Varun from Hyderabad, India. I have just started reading books, aiming to complete reading 10 books this year. Very excited to interact with readers across the Globe :)

Hi Varun, welcome. Wishing you a happy stay on GR :)

Hello Varun, welcome. We're both from same place :)

lethe wrote: "Hi Varun, welcome. Wishing you a happy stay on GR :)"

Thank you lethe :) I'm Honoured... Regards...

Michael wrote: "Hello Varun, welcome. We're both from same place :)"

Hello Michael, thank you :) #Love...

Hello there! Greetings from Canada. I'm new to this whole librarian thing. Looking forward to learning from you all :)

hi you guys!
'just joined this group and still waiting for my application to be accepted.
I hope to learn more here!

Cheers,

Welcome, Sandra and Arch :)

Hi everyone!
New librarian here (since yesterday yay!). I totally thought I wouldn't get the status but here I am, haha! I will try to do my best and hope I won't mess up.

Hey Anaee!

Don't worry too much about making mistakes - after over two years, I still make mistakes from time to time! Just read the manual every time you're unsure, especially when just starting out, and try your best to memorise and follow all the basic rules!

Susie wrote: "Hey Anaee!

Don't worry too much about making mistakes - after over two years, I still make mistakes from time to time! Just read the manual every time you're unsure, especially when just starting ..."

Thanks for the support Susie!

Hi everyone!
New as well as librarian. Hope to learn bunches from you. I'm impressed by your fast answers and impressive work. I'm taking it easy and only correct information about books I'm reading. Most of them are in Swedish. Hope I won't make any major mistakes.

Hi Erika, welcome!

If you're unsure about anything and the manual isn't clear, you can always ask here:)

Thanks, lethe!

I have applied a few times over the last 2years to become a librarian. Still waiting to become one.

Hello everyone
I am Ismail who read a lot, my English is weak but you will learn a lot

Welcome Ismail.

@ Stacy. I've been told what you put as reasons for why you want to become a librarian is very important. My first application apparrently that was blank. *blush*

***Carol*** wrote: "Welcome Ismail.

@ Stacy. I've been told what you put as reasons for why you want to become a librarian is very important. My first application apparrently that was blank. *blush*"

Thank you,

Welcome to our new Librarians - we need you, so thank you in advance.

Two bits of advice for new librarians:

1 - when in doubt just post here and ask. Lurk and see what other similar requests were made and take a glance at the librarian changelog for the book to sort of follow along with the process was educational when I was doing librarian edits.

2 - memorize the author FAQs at the top of this discussion group. Many authors don't notice or don't care (because confused and not finding their way around goodreads easy or because trying very hard to turn goodreads book data into their product page) the FAQs. #4 of the author FAQs seems to cause a great deal of issues/confusion -- only authors can set a primary/default/featured edition of their books (one of few things librarians cannot do for them) and published book covers don't get overwritten, definitely not in order to match product pages (new cover = new edition, see manual example for "alternate cover edition") nor do out of print books/editions get removed.

Most authors are just new to goodreads and looking for help. A few are very determined to get rid of their older editions with what they feel are less marketable book covers -- I've seen a few have the policy explained over and over and over who will spot a newbie librarian and try to get a cover update past them anyway.

Not that there would never be a cover correction needed in the case of a bookcover from a completely different book, a broken bookcover image, a better but same book cover image, replacing an invalid bookcover (like ones with orange look inside arrow showing) -- in those instances, a very good idea to add a comment/note explaining why you were replacing the bookcover (tired librarians tend to automatically revoke cover changes if they don't see an explanation). Plus readers here get a bit cranky if someone changes the bookcovers on their shelves, listopias, and group activities -- authors trying to update their bookcovers can be much easier to deal with than a horde of readers on a team challenge furious that their book got disqualified because someone vandalized their bookshelves to change the cover of the edition they owned/used.

Lots and lots of threads on cover updates. If it's a published cover, think "correction or fix = yes" but "update to match product page or current version = no, alternate cover edition needs to be made."

Hey all! I've been a librarian for awhile now, but have only ever really corrected mistakes as I find them, and haven't gone out of my way to seek them before. Hoping to be more a part of the community now and help out!
Nice to meet you all :D

Very excited for you Duncan! My name is Margarita. I'm thrilled to be a part of the group and really looking forward to hearing everyone's book recs, as well as share some of my own. Don't be surprised, because some of them are a little strange, but fun! :)

Margarita wrote: "Very excited for you Duncan! My name is Margarita. I'm thrilled to be a part of the group and really looking forward to hearing everyone's book recs, as well as share some of my own. Don't be surpr..."

This isn't a place for books recs. Are you spamming all the groups?

Margarita wrote: "Very excited for you Duncan! My name is Margarita. I'm thrilled to be a part of the group and really looking forward to hearing everyone's book recs, as well as share some of my own. Don't be surpr..."

@Margarita -- this is the help desk for book data issues. Goodreads librarians are volunteers who help fix/add book data. It's one of three "official groups" moderated by actual goodreads staff so as Elizabeth said it's really not the group to give/ask recommendations or spam. You'd basically be interfering with someone's help desk request/ticket or discussions on librarian/policy issues.

can i ask how to became Author goodread? And, how to claim my author goodread profile?

Norash wrote: "can i ask how to became Author goodread? And, how to claim my author goodread profile?"

Heaps of helpful information in the author's official group.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

I think this topic should be made sticky.

thanks for information

i want to fix my own book... how can be librarian... i actually have 50 book now. i have applied by librarian and it say 'you have applied as librarian'. but, why i cant fix my book? also, i didt received any email from goodread about librarian.

#45 - It usually takes a few days for you to be approved, it is not instant, they have to review the request and approve it.

Norash wrote: "can i ask how to became Author goodread? And, how to claim my author goodread profile?"

Once one of your books is added to goodreads (you can add or you can request a librarian to add for you if not already in goodreads -- and you can add ahead of its publish date), an author page is created. Go to book, click on author name to get to author page and scroll down to where it asks "Is this you? Let us kniw..." iClick that to claim your profile.

Once claimed, you have most librarian editing rights to your book data but can also just ask a librarian to do for you. Only librarians create/edit book series. And a few database standards in place so if not sure when editing feel free to ask in this group, ask a goodreads librarian, email support @ goodreads.com or check under help screen for the librarian manual laying out the policies. Mostly the edit menus are pretty self-explanatory (there's a brief FAQ section at top of this group's discussions).

Philip wrote: "#45 - It usually takes a few days for you to be approved, it is not instant, they have to review the request and approve it."

& they don't let you know if you are unsuccessful.

Also, my understanding is that they generally don't make authors librarians. But a more experienced librarian will hopefully weigh in on this. :)

***Carol*** wrote: "Philip wrote: "#45 - It usually takes a few days for you to be approved, it is not instant, they have to review the request and approve it."

& they don't let you know if you are unsuccessful.

Als..."


I was talking about being accepted as an Author, which would let her fix a number of things with her own books, which currently she is not linked to her Author Profile, but you are right about the Librarian thing. I have seen an Author that was both, but all the limits placed on Authors was placed on them for any of their own books.

Philip wrote: "...I was talking about being accepted as an Author, which would let her fix a number of things with her own books, which currently she is not linked to her Author Profile.."

If she goes to her author profile she can scroll down to where it says "Is this you? Let us know..." and click there to claim it. Usually takes a couple of days--but staff did say they currently have a bit of backlog.

In the meantime, until the claim goes through, she's welcome to post in this group any edits needed on her books.