Adding Pendle Hill Pamphlets

I'm new to LibraryThings. I'm wondering if there is any advice about how to add PHPs some way so that they can be viewed and printed in order by number. I have listed them as a Collection and and have tried a number of ways: beginning the title with the number (only works for two digit numbers), the number is in the CK Series but that is not searchable and will not list in order when chosen in a customized view, etc.

Have any of you other Quaker librarians found a way to do this?

This is a problem! The closest I have been able to get is to sort by publication date. Within any year, there may be 4 to 6 published, so within the year they will be listed not by number but alphabetically by author or title, whichever you have chosen for the second order sort.
One other possibility I have not tried: look under the sort order button, and you will see that you could sort by order of the date when you started reading the book. Instead of entering some such date on the book page, one could enter the number of the pamphlet. And then sort by "date when you started reading the book," and you would get a sort by number. This would work if you wanted to print it out that way, or to view them in order. But it might be hard to explain to other people how to do it.

Jean R., for CanberraFriends

1) Publication date could include a month.

2) Have the first tag be PHP followed by a number, making sure to use enough leading zeros.

Pendle Hill Pamphlets is a Series and has a series page http://www.librarything.com/series/Pendle+Hill+Pamphlets

This shows them in order and the ones you have cataloged will have a green check.

To find the series, you can search Pendle Hill Pamphlets in the "search site" box on the upper right and then choose series from the list on the left.

If you add a pamphlet not already on the series page, you can add the series and number on the work page.

What/where is a "work page"? I have added a Pendle Hill pamphlet to my library not listed on the series page, and don't know what to do to get it to show up.

The work page is the main page that is about that book.

Click on the title in your catalogue(or somewhere else). This will take you to the main work page. Either scroll down, or click on the Common Knowledge link. The top CK is series. Enter the series name and order using one already there as a sample.

That of course is if it is not on the page at all. If it is there, but not showing that you own it, then there are two separate works that need to be combined.

Thanks - I'll give that a try.

llw

I have found a good way to get the Pendle Hill Pamphlets in my catalog to list in order. Enter in the publication date field: the year, then a comma, then PHP #xxx. For example, 1991, PHP #295
Then set the sort order to order by publication date. The pamphlets will appear in order, since the publication date gives the right order of years, and within any one year, the pamphlets will get in order of their number. So you end up with them all in order by their number.
Jean Rosenberg

Thank you, Jean. Finally, you figured it out; excellent. I also like the feature of the series numbers in Common Knowledge that MarthaJeanne talks about and was pleased to find that a while ago. However, though of interest to me, it is not helpful for the members of my Meeting. None of them really explore LibraryThing enough to find that feature. How it will be most helpful is for our printed inventory of our PHPs. Luckily, I have just started (only about 40) entering our collection so I can easily go back and add the year and number.

Now I want to start a new subject and ask our group if anyone is willing to share their library policy and/or operations. We've never had one and I need to write it up. I'm interested in how others have written their policies.
Claudia Hanson

I've been lucky. I have entered from the start the number of the PHP at the beginning of each title, e.g. "#171 War Resistance in Historical Perspective". So when I set the first sort order by publication date and the second order by title they are all in order by number---it works. I do not have to enter the "PHP #171" within the publication date field.
Claudia Hanson

FYI, if you put the pamphlet number in parentheses after the series name, clicking on the series in your record (right below the heading title, near the top of the page), you'll get a list of the pamphlets in series order, no fussing with adding complications to the dates, etc. And, as mentioned above, you'll see a bright green check by the ones in your library on the list.

ETA: I had said it was a "Publisher's Series" (made sense to me, it has an ISSN and everything), but that's not apparently what LibraryThing means when they say "Publisher's Series." Besides, all 451 (452?) PHPs are under "Series," which has that snazzy automatic sorting going on.

You can also add series to your catalogue view if that will help the members of your meeting. Clicking at the top of that column will sort by it.

>11 HFMLibrary: The difference in LT between series and publishers series is basically whether every copy of the works is in the series. Dozens of publishers have editions of Tom Sawyer. Some of them in series like Penguin Classics. But my copy isn't a Penguin Classic edition. Every copy is part of the Tom Sawyer books written by Mark Twain, so that is in the series slot, and I can see which of those I have entered.

Humanity in the Face of Inhumanity has only been published as a Pendle Hill Pamphlet. Every copy is part of that series.

Our (Raleigh Friends Meeting) Pendle Hill pamphlets can be sequenced using a Dewey call number sort. They are all classed as 289.6 .P45 no. xxx. On the other hand, I suspect most members simply shuffle through one of the wooden boxes we have them in to see what we have starting from earliest to most recent. I've done a "bibliographic instruction" course, including handouts, for the meeting as part of second hour activities, but I'm not sure how deep into the innards of LibraryThing most meeting attenders are interested in going.