A quick search for "author" reveals other alternatives used by (professional) catalogers:
http://openlibrary.org/search?author=author (See the Author search facet.) Unknown author 403 Unknown Author 358 Author unknown 254 No Author 145 Author Unknown 59 No Author. 54 Author 20 No author. 16 No author 12 unknown author 8 Unknown Author Unknown 7 no author 7 No Author Stated 7 (No Author) 6 No author noted 5 No author noted. 4 no author listed 4 (no author) 4 Author Not Stated 4 Author. 4 No author specified 3 Miscellaneous Author 3 no Author 3 Author One 3 Multi-Author 3 No Author Listed 3 No Stated Author 3 Author Anonymous 2 (no author given) 2 Author 2 Author Wright 2 Unkown Author 2 No author stated 2 Mms suspense author 2 Author Test 2 TEST AUTHOR 2 Cheers, george On 10/18/10 11:26 AM, Patrick Conley wrote: > If there are tales, there must be an author or an editor. In the case of the > audio cassette I would use "Unknown". > > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2624611A/Unknown (2.712 works) > > or > > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2674189A/Author_unknown (254 works) > > > Am 18.10.2010 19:53, schrieb Sarah Breau: >> Some books have too many authors to name, or no author given. For example, >> the >> author of Tales of Fools and Wise Folk (OL9838343W) is listed as >> "Storytelling >> Press National" which is not an author. Often a book's editor is put in the >> author field, but when given a choice, I leave the author field blank and put >> the editor in as a contributor. However, at this point, I cannot remove the >> author from a work, and since Tales of Fools and Wise Folk does not have an >> editor, I guess the publisher will have to stand in for now. Since it can be >> difficult to add all contributing authors to the author field (I recently >> came >> across a collection that had over 300 authors) I think we should be able to >> make the author field blank. Any suggestions? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
