Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hi

This has come up with Awards

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

One problem is this sort of editor doesn't get an author credit on Goodreads so it is a matter of how to display it.

While I'm on a roll, I never agreed with the decision to allow awards for cover (as opposed to illustrators who often work as a team with the author) I'm sure I've also seen book design awards. Could this also be looked at?

I think the whole thing needs to be revisited before we get asked to credit publicists, proofreaders' awards.

Any other Librarians have an opinion? :)

Nevermind. (although I would still like the criteria for who gets an award revisited)

I have mentioned in the past that awards are not my thing. Having said that, I totally agree with you. We do not put the artists under authors, so why would we give a shout out to an award for it. I could see adding a notice about it in the description though since we are allowed to give a credit there. When I do comic books, I always put the cover artist at the end since in that world those covers are very important. Most of the time the cover artist is also one of the illustrators in the actual book, but not always. Sometimes covers are done by a particular artist who has nothing to do with the series.

A few months ago, I came across an author with hundreds of books to his name. At first, I figured he was a comic book artist since those always have multitudes. Nope. He was a cover artist from the 1950s until the 80s. He had a couple of books that were about his work that are legit. All of the rest were from his covers. I gave up removing him from the books after the first hundred. There were just too many editions of each book, so that the hundreds were actually thousands. I wish I could remember his name. Oy I meant to go back and do a few at a time, but I can’t find the bookmark.

This is off topic, but sort of relates in the recognizing everyone argument. The bots seem to scroll through books and add any name they come across as a "contributor". It is the equivalent to the credits of a movie showing the craft services people. Yes, the people "helped" in some way for the book to be written, usually as a source. They are not authors of anything though.

Tawnya wrote: "I have mentioned in the past that awards are not my thing ..."

Awards weren't my thing either, but I started helping out there years back. I've done a few recently, but I want to go back to just curating four from my own country. & now one of those awards does have a massive influence on my own reading!

Yes, I would like it to go back to just people who qualify for the author field getting an award credit. I know comic books often have several people who work on the illustrations (Inker is one role) & that's fine. I prefer to leave comics & manga to the librarians who specialise in them.

Bumping. :)

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "Bumping. :)"
Bumping again!

Edit: I have edited the title as other librarians can't help with this.

& this has come up in the awards folder.

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

So my question is this isn't a book award - is the sticker still eligible?

If the book was imported from Amazon with a sticker like this on, we wouldn't remove the cover after all.

I've suggested to the publisher that his author should apply for Gr status.

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

I would like the ok to change the award name. & for a ruling to go in the Manual

Nevermind. I've done what I thinks best.