Am I correct in assuming that you have the names that were posted a week or so ago by various people? Or has Marissa already fixed those? Cindy ----- Original Message ----- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] fixing garbled authors' names Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:11:02 -0700 (PDT) > > Hi everyone, > > I have volunteered to help clean up the Bookshare database, and I'd like > to ask for some assistance. Marissa commented that sometimes the same > author is listed under several names. I took a quick look and found > 'Lawrence Schiller' and 'Lawrence Schiller.' - obviously they're the same > person, but the database lists them as 2 separate people. If you know of > any such mistakes or misspellings of names, could you please let me know > about them? I'd like to collect as many mistakes as possible, and then go > to Bookshare and fix them all. I'm hoping there won't be tooooooo many, > but I just don't know what to expect. Please write me off-list (I don't > want to clog the discussion group with this) at ckarnos@xxxxxxxxxx > > Thanks for all your help! Carrie > > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. > http://messenger.yahoo.com > > -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10