How are other librarians entering the series names in the Mitford books by Jan Karon? With the new one on it's way, I started looking on all the inconsistent ways I had entered the series. Some Mitford, some with the number of the book in the series. I studied CBD to see how they name the series. It is all so confusing!
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This website has the list of Jan Karon's books divided into series categories:
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/jan-karon/
I use a third line on the spine label (and the identifier on the title page) to identify a specific book, especially when an author has written many books (this helps to properly shelve the books). I use initial letters for up to the first three key words in a title (e.g., Beneath a Navajo moon by Lisa Carter -- F Car BNM). But for a series, I use one or two key word letters and the number of its place in the series in order ensure that the books are shelved in series order.
In the case of Jan Karon's books, Home to Holly Springs and In the company of others are in the Father Tim series and are labeled FT1 and FT2, respectively. The rest of the books, from At home in Mitford to the new To be where you are are labeled M01 through M12, respectively, to show their place in the Mitford Years series.
Ron Brown covered it HUGE (I learned English from Twitter.). The books didn't seem to have a uniform identification. I know that with Concourse just searching on title and including Mitford will find them all.
But I went Googling anyway and came up with two URLs for series:
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/mitford/
https://www.fictiondb.com/author/jan-karon~series-list~26777.htm
https://www.fictiondb.com/search/search.htm (for general searching)
I plan to bookmark these