A few weeks ago I had a little difficulty checking in Greek BIP for some titles
I "knew" had been published there, and reported the problem :
<<Unfortunately,
www.gbip.gr does not list all the book titles included in our
database. It presents some books written by Greek authors, for which we
have an English translation of the title & some other bilingual data available
(but this is not the case for a lot of the titles).
In order to be able to view all the titles included in the database, I would
strongly recommend that you perform your searches directly at
www.biblionet.gr.>>
I responded with some suggestions that I hoped would clarify the differences
between the two sites, and to make them more intuitive and useful.
My first suggestion was that the English language version of the site should
explain that is is NOT a transliterated mirror of the complete Greek listings,
and that users be instructed to check the Greek language part to ensure
that they had complete information.
The second was to request that searches by publisher name (and by their
ISBN prefixes) in the English version (which mostly came up blank - giving
the impression that they had no publications currently available) be linked
to the complete listings in the Greek site (this is more of a technical
problem in the programming of the site and I hope it can at some point be
implemented)
The third suggestion was that author and title entries for books published
in English in Greece be included in the English interface.
I have just received a response from them :
<<I'm glad to inform you that points 1 & 3 of your suggestions have
been realised
(and all Anagnosis/Lycabettus/Harvey titles have been inserted in the English
language version of the database, too, together with all books by
Greek publishers
originally published in English).>>
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.com