How does one combine a series?

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How does one combine a series?

1shmjay
Oct 25, 2020, 5:14 pm

2amanda4242
Oct 25, 2020, 5:17 pm

>1 shmjay: Select relationships/combine in the edit series menu, then click combine series. You'll want to combine Bony into the Inspector series, rather than the other way around, to preserve the labels.

3LamontCranston
Modifié : Jan 17, 2022, 5:01 am

>2 amanda4242: What if the series you want to combine it with does not appear in the list of series? For example I want to combine the trade paperbacks of detective comics with the individual detective comics issues: https://www.librarything.com/nseries/3153/Detective-Comics-Vol-1-%5B1937-2011%5D + https://www.librarything.com/nseries/23605/Detective-Comics-Vol-1-%5B1937-2011%5...

When I select relationships/combine the do not appear in the list with the option to combine them.

4Nevov
Jan 17, 2022, 6:50 am

>3 LamontCranston:
I would be very hesitant to combine those two, firstly because it looks like one of the series was deliberately set up to be just the Trade Paperbacks (before the series name got changed), and its description "Collected Editions of issues titled Detective Comics, issues from the Silver Age onwards." reflects that, so you may prefer to switch the name back and retain it as a series for just the TPBs (since they can be collected as a series in their own right, and somebody did go to the trouble to set it up like that on purpose in the past).

Second reason is because I believe (possibly someone else can confirm/refute) that whenever you do a combination it blanks out all the label information and doesn't carry it automatically through the combination.
(by which I mean every label such as "298, 341, 349, 369, 388, 389, 390, 391" might get auto-blanked out of all the 91 works) causing a lot of work to reconstruct it. (Not insurmountable but take a copy/paste of the page text, or screenshots if you want to be certain not to lose any information).

I don't have any vested interest in that series, so if combining is going ahead, the technical "how to" answer, is: you need a work to be in both series for the combination option to appear. So you'd add one of the items manually into the other series, then you'll get the option to combine.

But do tread carefully when such a lot of work has gone into setting it up like it is. It might be the best route is to add the TPBs as Collection/Selection items in the other series manually, AND leave the other series exist as itself, to cater to both preferences. Then you'd have the TPB series being a subseries of the entire Volume 1. But as I say, no vested interest here I'm only speaking caution from how I was taught to handle TPB series.

5Maddz
Jan 17, 2022, 7:29 am

The important thing with combining individual issues of comics with collections is to ensure that you include enough information that people can easily see which issues are included.

Also, remember to set the work-to-work relationship so that Collection Title #1 is not autocombined with Issue Title #1 and so on. I worked on various Vertigo titles last year and was finding that problem a lot in Sandman

6spiphany
Jan 17, 2022, 9:48 am

>3 LamontCranston: Series only appear on the list of possible combinations if there are overlaps (i.e. the two series share at least one book).

Additionally (though not a factor in this case) both series must be of the same type (i.e. both regular series or both publisher series, but not a mixture).

7LamontCranston
Jan 17, 2022, 3:07 pm

>4 Nevov: There isn't any reason to separate the volume 1 like that except someones personal preference, I've found a lot of little quirky demarcations and fiefdoms like that in DC comic series to untangle. Birds of Prey had maybe a ten, still haven't figured out how to fix them all.