<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello, all.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I've just written and shared in github a function script specifically for Google Sheets that is designed to be used in a sheet that has normal (that is, unsortable) LC call numbers and provides a properly sortable column (mostly by padding the various numbers with leading zeros).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">It is located here:</div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/mbelvadi2/lcsortable">https://github.com/mbelvadi2/lcsortable</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The readme has the basic directions on how to use it.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It works on a spreadsheet with all of my own catalogue's lc call numbers, but there may be legitimate variants of LC call number syntax that I'm unaware of that I might have failed to code properly for. (It does handle 3-letter LC classes and those weird old call numbers that start with the class and then have the pubyear instead of subject area number.)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">So I could sure use either some direct help testing this or some big lists of LC call numbers that may include unusual but legitimate forms of LC call numbers.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If anyone has pretty comprehensive test lists of LC call numbers, I'd appreciate your sharing it with me. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Otherwise, I think this is good to go and you all are welcome to use it. If you do use it, I'd love it if you dropped me a line to let me know about it, just to know it is helpful. I put the "MIT license" on it for maximal sharing as per github's advice.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Also this is my first serious use of github, so if I messed up anything to do with that, please advise me.</font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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