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The "Directory" link on the navbar leads to the ISFDB Author Directory which is a table showing the first and last author for each letter in the alphabet. Clicking on any author leads to a page showing all authors for the given letter.
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The "Author Directory" link on the navbar leads to the ISFDB [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/directory.cgi Author Directory] which is a table showing the first two letters of the author last names from Aa to Az down to Za to Zz. You click on one of the pairs to view a list of authors whose last name starts with that letter pair. If there are no authors whose name starts with a particular letter pair then that spot in the table is grayed out.
  
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Note that the author directory is from ISFDB version 1 and has not been updated since early 2005. There is a project in the works to upgrades these pages to reflect the current ISFDB author list but in the mean time you may be better off using ISFDB's [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi Advanced Search] or [http://www.isfdb.org/ standard search] (at the top of the left navbar) features to look up authors. You can simulate the directory in the standard search by entering space followed by the first letter(s) of the last name.  For example, " as" (space-a-s) shows a list of 97 authors whose last name starts with "As." Note that this method does not work in Advanced Search as it strips leading/trailing spaces.
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The position of authors in the directory, or within the page for a particular letter pair, is controlled by the '''[[Template:AuthorFields:LastName|Last Name]]''' field of the [[Help:Screen:AuthorData|Edit Author Data]] screen. If you spot an author that's filed in an unexpected spot in the directory then you can correct this by updating that author's Last Name field.
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You can also do partial name searches, for example if you are unsure if it's Ursula K. Le Guin or Ursula K. LeGuin you can search for either "Ursula" or "guin" and the list will be short enough that you can locate the author record.
 

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The "Author Directory" link on the navbar leads to the ISFDB Author Directory which is a table showing the first two letters of the author last names from Aa to Az down to Za to Zz. You click on one of the pairs to view a list of authors whose last name starts with that letter pair. If there are no authors whose name starts with a particular letter pair then that spot in the table is grayed out.

The position of authors in the directory, or within the page for a particular letter pair, is controlled by the Last Name field of the Edit Author Data screen. If you spot an author that's filed in an unexpected spot in the directory then you can correct this by updating that author's Last Name field.

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