Practice with series editors

The author page of Richard D. Mann has dozens of works where he's appearing as editor-some editions. After checking some books in my library, I realized he's the series editor of the SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology, each of which has different edition editors. Should these entries remain as they are or is there a way to note him as series editor? In some cases, he's referenced as publisher editor in CK, which to me seems an adequate way to handle this info. Either way, shouldn't he be editor-all editions since I believe all titles in the series were originally published by SUNY and any possible subsequent editions by another publisher would not be further edited?

Thoughts?

"Editor" in the LT sense refers to either the editor of a specific edition (Rosemary Ashton edited the Penguin edition of Middlemarch, for example), or the editor who compiles a collection or anthology. Richard Mann sounds like what LT calls the "Publisher's editor" as you say: the guy who works for the publisher, probably commissioned the book, edits the book for publication. I in fact would not list him in "Other authors" at all, and just put him in CK.

I usually don't bother including Series Editor among Other Authors, but sometimes I do, if I feel it's a case where it has significance. 'Series Editor' doesn't appear in the pull-down but it can be typed into the free field presented by 'Other'.

That is what I'm wondering, whether to leave it as is, or move that info to CK entries publisher's editor? I don't feel comfortable undoing someone's work unless its generally deemed desirable. To me, the author page seems unrepresentative and strange dominated by works where he's the series editor. To the best of my knowledge, series editor is not really involved with editing individual works, but rather with conceptualizing the series, choosing what works to include and such.

All those books are down in the 'also by' section, so while they do take up most of the page, they are quite separate from the books where he is the primary author. I'd leave it, or just change editor to series editor.

Yes, I think I'll edit 'editor' to 'series editor' to make it clear and leave it at that. I was completely perplexed I have dozens of books by the man, when in fact I have only one, LOL

BTW, author page tags treat the all works on the author page the same, which results with some weird tags on author pages. One of my authors wrote a foreword to some editions of 1984 and the result is a tag page that is a replica of 1984 tags, even though his own work is not dystopian

>2 Stevil2001: "Editor" in the LT sense means exactly what you describe, someone who edits the book. In the literary world the partnership between some authors and their editors is legendary. So it is legitimate to use "editor" in those cases. However, in this case the Author is the Primary Author and the Editor is a secondary author, often for all editions.

For reissued works, "definitive" editions or other republications, the Editor as secondary author may change.

For what it's worth when I've noticed the name of someone in Mann's role in front matter of a book in a series s/he's always been listed as 'general editor' rather than publisher's or series editor. And again for what it's worth I'd enter if I could be bothered 'general editor (Transpersonal . . . series)' on CK page.