Member: EveleenM

The reviews look positive, but I hope the weather improves!
Regards, Mike

posted by abbottthomas at 5:40 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2011

Hi Eveleen,
No need to be sorry. It took me maybe about five minutes, and what's that compared to the hours I spend working on LT. You know, I love combining and separating books and authors!

posted by henkl at 7:50 am (EST) on May 24, 2011

Hi Eveleen,

It seems we were working on Dante at the same time last night; I was doing some separating and combining, when suddenly the author page changed. Initially I didn't understand what had happened, but then I found out the Dantes had been separated from Dante Alighieri and the remaining works on the Dante page aliased to D.A.
A good job, I think (wondering why I hadn't thought of it).

posted by henkl at 4:04 am (EST) on May 24, 2011

Ah, I see what you mean. Well, I don't think it hurts to add people who aren't authors, but I'll bear that in mind and not add so many of them.

posted by languagehat at 8:57 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2011

Hi Eveleen, I'm so glad to meet you again and in two different groups. I read your introduction in the Garden& Books-group and I'm quite envious that you live in Ireland and visited all those beautiful gardens. I've been wrecking my brain to find you a beautiful Belgian garden, but it's like giving an Italian advice on where to find the most beautiful churches outside Italy... I can recommend some French gardens though, like Bois des Moutiers in Normandy and Eyrignac and Marqueyssac in the Perigord (Dordogne).
I hope to often meet you in the groups and exchange some good book-garden-book-advice.

posted by JustJoey4 at 3:03 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2011

I am feeling a little confused as to how to preserve CK information when splitting an author. I went to author, Hosea Ballou, and added some CK information to the info already there. Then, Idecided to read the Wikipedia article a little more closely, and noted that there was a reference to Hosea Ballou II, a grandhephew, and found that he wrote at least two of the books on the Hosea Ballou page (there is no LT author Hosea Ballou II). So, I went back to the author page, and split the author, and found I lost the CK info. So, I undivided the page, and got the CK info back. What I would do is to either write down all the CK info for Author 1 (but there is too much info), or try printing the page out -- but I am at the computer right how with the 3rd printer. I feel that this has already been discussed, but I haven't totally paid attention to every posting in the last two weeks, so I thought I could just write you, and maybe you could point the way, or maybe I should just hunker down and put everything back in manually, when I do the split again.

posted by vpfluke at 10:08 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2011

I started working on James Macdonald before I realized that your note said you were going to work on him. I am very unfinished at this point, but I thought I should tell you before I did any more work, and apologize for butting in. One of the issues I have on the #1 JM is his nationality. He was born in Canada, but now lives in the U.S. and he is the pastor of a large church in Illinois. What I don't know is whether he has become a U.S. citizen, or might describe himself as an "American." So, I put in a nationality which popped up as 'Canada, USA'. Now, I may try to find out more about him, so as to get this data correct.

posted by vpfluke at 8:54 pm (EST) on Jan 28, 2011

Great work on the Astounding/Analog series! It's been on my radar for a while...but such a HUGE job. Thank you for tackling it.

posted by PortiaLong at 10:00 pm (EST) on Dec 20, 2010

Glad you enjoyed the Festival but, as you say, it's hard not to. I thought Hubicka(new to me)was pretty flawless and Mercadante's music was really good. We opted out of The Golden Ticket - I always feel I'm being a bit flabby when I avoid new opera but I don't get the impression that we missed much. We didn't see La Boheme but did go to La Serva Padrona which was great fun. I didn't think the White's conference room was a particularly comfortable venue for opera but this fitted in well by setting the action in a hotel bar. Lots of laughs, but the biggest was when the director, who played the mute role of the manservant, hijacked Michael O'Reilly's Health and Safety message: having asked the audience to turn off their mobile phones he remarked that a phone had gone off during the Golden Ticket and that the audience had asked for an encore as it was the only tune they had heard all evening! We took in four recitals at St Iberius - always good value - including nOah Stewart who, having enthused everyone with Nessun Dorma as an encore, stood at the door and shook hands with most of the departing crowd - not something you'd expect anywhere else. Roll on next year!
Regards, at

posted by abbottthomas at 4:02 pm (EST) on Dec 5, 2010

Hello,

I think this Tennyson might not be linked with the one you listed, but I'm not sure how you check. Thanks for all your work on this by the way. Here is the link, http://www.librarything.com/work/139393/book/61941809

Best,

posted by Tanglewood at 8:45 am (EST) on Aug 7, 2010

Eveleen - wow- you have done a splendid job with the Series in CK! Do you have a special connection with the Wexford Festival Opera? - casaloma

posted by casaloma at 3:47 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2010

Dear Eveleen,

again (!) thank you very much for your help and information. I just found out that I answered to you within the forum which mifht be not correct.
Maybe Antoin Gearnan is the person I'm searching for. His poem (which I only have heard in a German translation at the radio) is a wonderful declaration of love for Ireland. The english version read:
Ireland is in all of its parts like a young girl
It is nice to see and has a soft skin of tender gras
And indeed it has freckles line many Irish too
And some parts are darker than the others .... etc.

Next time I should direct a question to you directly for it seems that you know everthing!

Best wishes from the other site of the ocean to Wicklow atthe Irish Sea
Arno +++++++++++

posted by friz700 at 9:32 am (EST) on Jul 6, 2010

Hallo Eveleen,

thanks for your help. Even the prices for that book are a little bit high -
I will order a copy!

Best greetings from the Ge3rman North Sea to Ireland
Arno ++++++++++++++

posted by friz700 at 11:57 am (EST) on Jun 3, 2010

Hallo Eveleen, thanks for your information about THE LAND OF WONDERS. Of course I never will understand Irish (I'm German)but I do hope to get the English translation of TIR NA N-IONGANTAS. Best regards Arno +++++++

posted by friz700 at 6:53 am (EST) on Jun 3, 2010

Hi Eveleen
Yep, "travel survival kit" was an early tagline for the standard series, which is now referred to (inhouse) as the blue spine series.
There is also the Shoestring series, Discover series (full-colour), Condensed (short trip), which was replaced by Best Of (short trip, e.g. Best of Paris), which was replaced by the current Encounter series (short trip). For regional USA destinations there is a Trips series. For less popular destinations we have the Custom Guides which are printed on demand through Amazon. Finally there was a series called "Classic Overland Routes".
Obviously we also have a few different activity guides, such as the Cycling and Hiking guides, but I assume you're not interested in these.
regards,
mark

posted by lonely_planet at 9:13 pm (EST) on May 31, 2010

Aha, I didn't know that Munster Irish pronounces it differently -- that's the dialect I've come into very little contact with. (My teacher in Irish was from Belfast and the textbooks were in Connemara Irish.) Yes, I studied Irish in the 80s, more or less by chance, and for a while I developed an interest in all things Irish. I used to go to Ireland once or twice a year for 15 years, but it's almost ten years since my last visit now. Time to go back soon and take a look at the defanged Tiger, I guess.

-j

posted by anglemark at 7:21 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2010

Doing the same to you! Your library quckly showed on our radar when you started to enter books. (How do you pronounce Eveleen; just like the Irish pronunciation of Eibhlín or with a long initial "e" as in Eve?)

-j

posted by anglemark at 7:05 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2010

There are a million places to look but I chiefly use the following:

Library of Congress Authorities - It’s a poor site. It times you out, the info in different “files” isn’t cross-referenced (so the Name Authority Headings “file” contains info that is not in Name/Title Authority Headings and vice-versa), it’s hard to use and it is the best reference I know. You enter the name last, first. I use Name/Title first and then Name Headings if I get desperate. The url is http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First

WorldCat - A pretty good site but takes a lot of clicks and there are some strange things in the info. I use it two ways. I keep a window open to the Advanced Search and use that. I enter the title of the book (or more likely a word or two of the title), and the author. If the list that comes up has the right book, I click on the title which gives me a book page. I then go to the Details section and click on Go next to the authors name. The info that comes up may duplicate the Library of Congress but sometimes not. Be careful though. Say you are looking for John Adams. If it comes up John Adams 1735-1826 or Adams, John of Inverkeilor, Scot then all is well. If it is just John Adams then it is the undifferentiated page and all different authors are on the page and you haven’t learned anything. I also use the WorldCat link on the book page (righthand column) which tries to do an ISBN look-up sometimes. The url for WorldCat advanced search is http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch

Fantastic Fiction - Pretty good for recent authors and a few older authors. 99% fiction but I have found non-fiction sometimes. Usually not much bio info but good for identifying books that go with an author. The url is http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

A caveat. I have found errors on every site I ever used. You have to be careful.

I hope this is of some help. Obviously I am not very good at writing help documents but I am willing to try again if you have more questions or if this was too elementary.

I like your library by the way. We share a lot of books and authors, particularly favorite authors. I just noticed that you only joined in January! I am impressed that you got all those books in so quickly, and all those badges!

posted by bw42 at 7:10 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2010