Is there a Goodreads Super-Librarian in the House?

[rolanni]

As the author, I have tried to delete Web of the Trident, a non-existent book, from my list of authored books. The book listing itself states in several places that the book was never written; does not exist. However, because several people with active fantasy lives have "reviewed" it, it can only be deleted, so Goodreads tells me, by a "super-librarian."

Does anyone fitting this description read here?

Failing that, in what part of the Goodreads forest might I seek a "super-librarian"?

Abundant Spanish Aunts.

Comments

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/285644-lanea is a librarian on goodreads. I don't know how to contact people through goodreads, but her website is up there too and you can probably contact her through that if not through goodreads. Good luck!

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Sorry I'm only a librarian on there. I'll ask a friend if she knows any super librarians.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

I joined a librarian's group and asked if the book could be deleted per your request.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

And it is now deleted.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

I did get some clarification from the person who deleted it.

186853 I deleted it. - edit - or to be exact - I Not a Booked it. It has an ISBN - so it would just come back at some point. But it doesn't show up in the author's profile.

[ambug666.livejournal.com]

"Faster than a checkout stamp! More powerful than the Dewey decimal system! Able to charge overdue fines in a single bound!"

"Look! Up in the stacks!"
"It's a book!"
"It's a periodical!"
"It's super-librarian!"

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

Shame on me for not getting to my LJ reading until late in the day today.
In the future if you need a Librarians help on GoodReads you can go to groups/GoodReads Librarians (SDMSPDH004GA11) from the main menu. They maintain a forum that is watched pretty much in real time by one or another of the many librarians and/or super librarians. They are very helpful and answer questions fast. (FYI Anyone on GR who has more then 50 books on their shelves can apply to be a librarian, but only people who work for GR have the special privileges of a Super Librarians.)

Now the issue of Web of the Trident. Earlier this summer I tried to get the book deleted, but because GR gets its database info from Amazon, and because Web has an ISBN number, every time GR would update it's database from Amazon missing ISBN items get repopulated. The current GR policy is to mark in the "type of media" field that an item is 'not a book' (NAB). That way the item doesn't get repopulated, and doesn't show up in a casual search unless someone searches on the exact name or ISBN. That's the idea anyway, GR is having search engine peculiarities and sometimes NABs show up anyway.

Web is not the first book to have this problem, nor the last, and through discussion and consensus this is haw GR has advertantly decided to handle this issue.

[pakwa26.livejournal.com]

Aren't all librarians super?

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Some are more superlatively super than others...

Another suggestion

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a way to contact Amazon and get it removed from their listings?
Amazon is a data-feed for many sites and if you can nip it at the source, it will fix it at many sites down-stream.
Just a thought!