Nola and I are still working on getting new book lists of ONLY Author Alert authors so that all we have to do is place those holds (no more browsing through ALL new books received)!
We've tried some experiments and I HOPE that we've finally figured out a way for it to work! I know that Shawn will miss that big white binder full of billions of authors to sort through, but hopefully, in time, she'll learn to love our new short and easy lists just as much! :)
We've matched the author names in our Author Alert list with the EXACT phrasing of their names in Polaris's "browsing" author list...so from now on all new authors added to our Author Alert list will need to be EXACTLY matched to Polaris's records.
For example, SOME authors in Polaris are just straighforward names: "Bender, Aimee."
BUT, SOME authors include birth dates: "Saunders, George, 1958-"
As long as we keep this straight in our Author Alerts database, we should be all good!
I'll update again when the new list has been printed! (keep your fingers crossed!)
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