Rules for Counseling Collection?

I am trying to build a collection that will have all of the counseling books (marriage, divorce, mental illness, addiction etc) in one place. I tried the wiki but could not find an example. Does anyone have a collection rule that you would not mind sharing. Thanks.

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Rosie Perera

Try this:

"pastoral care" OR counseling

And any that you find you've missed (by searching on specific issues such as those you've mentioned) you can tag "counseling" so they'll get picked up. Or you can add the issues to your rule as you think of them. But some of those issues (e.g., marriage) might pick up books that are not related to counseling (e.g., Enhancing Your Marriage), so you'd have to manually exclude them by dragging to the "minus" section.

Rick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/447637#Comment_447637

Thanks Rosie, I think that got the majority, if not all of them. [Y]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/447678#Comment_447678

Thanks Rosie, I think that got the majority, if not all of them.

You also might want to include "OR counselling" (spelled with a double-L) in your rule for good measure, as that's an alternate spelling that I think is used in British/Canadian English. I tried searching for "counselling" in my library just for kicks, and it found 4 resources that would have been found with the single-l counseling anyway, but they were tagged with the community tag "counselling". But you never know; down the road some new resources might come along that have the double-l spelling and not the single-l one mentioned anywhere in the metadata, and you'd miss out on them being added to this collection if you weren't on the lookout for them.

Community tags is a great new feature because if someone else has tagged a book that you might have overlooked, you'll pick it up this way if you're searching for counseling. That's why I suggested using the rule without filters (i.e., without something like title:counseling or subject:counseling) because this way, that word counseling can appear anywhere in the metadata and you'd still pick up the resource.

Rick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/447825#Comment_447825

I will do that. I really appreciate the help.

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https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/447825#Comment_447825

You also might want to include "OR counselling" (spelled with a double-L) in your rule for good measure

Alternative is OR counsel that matches both spellings since collection and library filtering can match partial word(s).

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Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/448309#Comment_448309

Alternative is OR counsel that matches both spellings since collection and library filtering can match partial word(s).

Yes, good point. However that would also pick up titles that you might not want, for example ones mentioning "the counsel of the Lord" in the description (as A.W. Tozer's The Root of the Righteous does). However it would also get stuff like counselor/counsellor which my version would miss. So might need to just manually exclude any books that got picked up unintentionally.

Also might want to include OR psychology.

Rick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/448867#Comment_448867

Thanks again KS4J and Rosie. Will modify my rule.

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https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/448867#Comment_448867

Also might want to include OR psychology.

Modified Psychology collection to add "Pastoral Care" that increased resource count by 1:

subject:(Counsel,"Pastoral care",Psychology)

Noticed Pastoral collection:

Subject:(Clergy,Counsel,Elder,Pastoral)

includes several Pastoral Epistle resources: e.g. Commentary, Harmony so could add to rule Type:(Journal,Magazine,Monograph)

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Doc B

Does anyone have a collection rule that you would not mind sharing.

Here's my rule-

mytag:counseling OR subject:(counseling, psychology) OR title:(counseling, psychology)

It works well for me.

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https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/449206#Comment_449206

Does anyone have a collection rule that you would not mind sharing.

Here's my rule-

mytag:counseling OR subject:(counseling, psychology) OR title:(counseling, psychology)

It works well for me.

Wiki => http://wiki.logos.com/Example_Collections now includes "Counsel + Psychology" collection with rule (superset of Doc B's):

Mytag:Counsel OR Subject:(Counsel, Living, “Pastoral Care”, Psychology) OR Title:(Counsel, “Pastoral Care”, Psychology)

Noticed example collection "Christian Living" has rule:

Subject:(Life,Living,Meditation),Title:(“Thomas Brooks”,Righteous)

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