Another RA question -- Fiction pseudonyms as online help
Dates: 12/11/00,9:23 PM through 12/12/00,12:11 PM (3 postings)
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FROM: Phalbe Henriksen <[removed]@earthlink.net>
REC'D: 12/11/00, 9:23 PM
Thank you for offering that segue opening, David. I'd like to segue even
further.
Have any of the librarians on the list compiled a list of popular authors
and their pseudonyms and posted it with OPAC help guidelines? Surely, when
library patrons are looking at our catalogues on-line, without possibility
of staff intervention, sometimes from home, sometimes in the library,
there's good reason to post a list of pseudonyms so they can see it. Has
anyone done this? Is it successful?
Phalbe Henriksen
Director
Bradford County Public Library
Starke, FL
FROM: Fiction_L Administrator <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 12/12/00, 7:55 AM
Yes we do this extensively. Our cataloguers make cross-references between
pseusonyms of authors whenever they identify them (we track this info.
from
staff knowledge as well as LC cross references and publishers' info.)
Authority records integrate this information into our catalogue, and
searchers find the links whenever they do an author search.
Our reference staff love this as well. It is considerably quicker than
searching the print or online guides, and has the advantage of only
linking
to those "authors" which our library holds.
Our catalogue dept is constantly aware that many of our clientele never
speak to a librarian -- the catalogue is the only professional link
between
the library and our customers.
Ann Ryan
Library Support Services Manager
North Shore Libraries
Ph (09) 486-8472
Fax (09) 486-8519
[removed]@shorelibraries.govt.nz
-----Original Message-----
From: Phalbe Henriksen [[removed]@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2000 16:16
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Another RA question -- Fiction pseudonyms as online help
At 07:07 PM 12/11/00 -0800, you wrote:
> Insofar as this is a readers' advisory listserv I'd like to ask a
question....
Thank you for offering that segue opening, David. I'd like to segue even
further.
Have any of the librarians on the list compiled a list of popular authors
and their pseudonyms and posted it with OPAC help guidelines? Surely, when
library patrons are looking at our catalogues on-line, without possibility
of staff intervention, sometimes from home, sometimes in the library,
there's good reason to post a list of pseudonyms so they can see it. Has
anyone done this? Is it successful?
Phalbe Henriksen
Director
Bradford County Public Library
Starke, FL
FROM: "Melanie C. Duncan" <[removed]@mail.bibb.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 12/12/00, 12:11 PM
I've posted pseudonyms on the links page of The Bookdragon Review which is
my homepage, but our library OPAC does not have this type of list.
Sincerely,
Melanie C. Duncan, M.S.L.S.
Christian Fiction columnist, Library Journal
Editor/Publisher, The Bookdragon Review (ISSN 1527-0157)
http://www.bookdragonreview.com
All opinions expressed are my own.
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