Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Whenever I come across booklistings with an 'invalid' or 'deleted' status set by one of the amazon bots, I have no problems reverting the status to 'public' and completing any missing details.

But can this also be done when the changes are made by -what looks like to be- the publisher? In this case it's about a book published by Austin Macauley Publishers; see https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Checking the librarian log, I noticed that the status change was made by Austin Macauly without logging any reason for this status change.
When clicking that name I see heaps of similar edits, changing statusses from public to invalid.

I advised the member who requested to add this book to contact Support, but wondered if it is allowed for us librarians to revert changes like this too, analogous to the amazon bots' edits.

I handled an inquiry from an author recently where this happened -- it may have been this publisher. I told her that her publisher marked it invalid (hoping she'd take it up with them) and changed it back. Looks like the last edit from this publisher was in July, and the few I checked had been reverted by staff, so they may have taken its librarian status away. Anyway, I would definitely change them back as this seems the same as authors who want to get rid of old editions or books they don't like any more.

I reported that publisher to support back in July. They had gone through YEARS worth of books and marked everything invalid. Their privileges were yanked immediately. I figure it was someone either ticked at their boss at the company, or a political statement due to GR's corporate owner. I went back months, and it started about the time certain events happened.

It is immaterial WHY they did it. It affected every single one of the authors whose works they are supposed to champion. Any time you see that publisher just revert it back. The jackanapes were #4 on the UK charts when they pulled their shenanigans. There are literally tens of thousands to go through. One would think that the developers would have a back door where they could do a mass undo of a librarian's work. Tell the system "undo" anything done by librarian X from such-and-such date to present. This cannot be the only time something of this nature has happened.

Thanks for your reactions, @Scott & @Tawnya.

Good to know that librarians can simply revert these status changes without having to burden their conscience or risk losing their librarian privileges.