Should I catalogue ephemera?

I recently came across a catalogue on librarything where the owner has catalogued a number of cruise line phamplets and magazines.
I have a number of passenger lists and pamphlets for various White Star Line ships and I'm wondering now if I should include them in my LT catalogue. It had never occured to me to include them but, now that I think about it, they are exactly the kind of thing you might find in a library. What do you think?

What am I doing? If something in print , anything, a parish church bulletin for example, has anything to do with my family history I include it, but that is because I have decided to use LT for my genealogy collection. I don't include photographs, documents, ration books, things that typically would be found in an archive rather than a library.

What do I think? I think you can put whatever things you want to put in your LT catalog. Most family history items are fairly unique and not likely to interfere or add to the social aspects of LT. I would not use family names in tags or comments though.

My great-great grandfather wrote a privately published family history. I'd never thought of including it here, but ... Why not!

I too have catalogued privately published family histories on LT - just because it doesn't have an ISBN doesn't mean its not a library item!

I have a large collection of colour tourist type booklets especially British ones of various cathederals, public buildings, universities etc. I collect them due to my 'Anglophia' & many of them have ISBNs & I have
catalogued them on LT a few don't have ISBNs & I also catalogued them too. I have a lot of similar type materials on American National Parks (also catalogued). They are resources to me & so I catalogue them. Genealogy resources are also catalogued as are talking books. I think I would draw the line @ cataloging my music CDs however! I believe that there is a website just for that!

Mention of CDs reminds me that I have several books on CD. Mostly these are copies of old county directories or old topological books (eg some histories of Lancashire). They're in pdf format. I haven't entered these in my LT catalogue yet but now I'm thinking about it. In their original (printed) book format some would be very expensive and copies are hard to come by.

Vanye wrote "I think I would draw the line @ cataloging my music CDs however! I believe that there is a website just for that!"

Would you mind sharing what that website is? That's just what I've been looking for. All I'm finding is software downloads to do it.

I vote "yes." I have several pamphlets and privately published items cataloged in my collection. I noticed one person cataloging individual issues of journals so I've done that with a few issues myself. I'm not sure I'll keep it up because LibraryThing thinks they are all the same, even if I include the different volumes and issue numbers in the title. I saw someone else cataloging the individual articles in the journals.

In my view, you can catalog anything any type of library would catalog. Since an historical library would definitely catalog ephemera, so would I.

I'm on a not entirely popular edge here, but as LT grows, the edge I walk becomes more popular. More people are cataloging absolutely anything a library would -- comics, graphic novels, dvds, videos, cds, magazines, individual bits of ephemera, articles, etc.

The tag "cd" has been used more than 16,000 times! I'm sure it's not exclusively used for music, but I scanned through the list, and it is predominantly music.

I'm stingy (is that how you spell stingy?) with the tags for non-book items, though, because I don't want to mess up the tag statistics for books. I just label dvds with the tags "dvd" and/or "tv on dvd". If I wanted to add more, I'd start all my tags with "dvd" (for instance: "dvd.drama", "dvd.comedy").

Now I'm rambling, so I'll shut up! :-)

Any suggestions on how to catalog High School yearbooks and their addenda?

I'd go to the search page, type "yearbook" into the tag search field, and see how other folks are doing it. I took a look, and there are quite a few yearbooks cataloged.

Duh, now didn't I think of that? Thanks for the excellent suggestion.