Member: hsl2000

Thank you for the kudos concerning the @ sign. I am not sure how organized I am. I don't feel like it quite yet since I am still cataloging. I think it will top out at about 12-1300 books. Then I will be able to import the LT into excell and merge into Word and create my library cards (complete with tags on the cards.

I do have sevearl books that don't have the "picture" of the book so I might start scanning in the book jackets as well.

Its all fun anyway. I need to have mindless moments... I think that is what LT does for me. It gives me some mindless down time.

posted by mrdrjohn at 10:30 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2007

One other note... You may have noticed that I use an "@" on some of my tags. I have assigned the "@" to be the main subject. This indicates which shelf I might find the book on. Of course, this is not highly technical or sophisticated, but neither is my library.

posted by mrdrjohn at 4:38 am (EST) on Jan 8, 2007

Wonderful... Please keep me posted. We can use all the good ideas we can get!

posted by mrdrjohn at 4:38 pm (EST) on Jan 6, 2007

"You have joined the Church Library group--does this indicate you are involved in building or maintaining your own congregation's library? I am trying to find ways to better utilize the few books we have as well as leverage the books from other churches in the area OR to find a way to get our membership's own acquisitions more available to others in the congregation. Any ideas you have on this would be especially welcome."

You have reached my private collection. We have just started to list the church library "crcc". At this point, our church librarian has only put in just a few. I personally end up sharing many books with people and needed a way to track my books better. I had, years ago, started to cataloge my books, but added several and then gave up on the idea until I discovered Librarything.

I have tried to be as complete in my "tags" as a way to help me with my own research as I prepare messages. If it also helps others who are in the church and would like a book on a topic, that will be great, but it is more of a personal need.

we did add our church catalog on our church web page so that as the list grows, people can see (from home) what is available. www.castlerockchristianchurch.org . You can go to our web page to see how we have accomplished this.

I do plan, after I finally finish cataloging to create "check out cards" from the LT list by using the Excel option and merging to Word. I do find that if I at least have a card in the book that I can pull as someone is borrowing the book that I can remember who borrowed it and where it might have disappeared to. I also find that a number of peopole seem to lose books. I don't know how to fix this problem, except count it as a loss and replace them when I can.

I don't know if this has helped. If you have any ideas for a small church library, I would be interested in hearing them as well.
Jn

posted by mrdrjohn at 8:47 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2007