LT Cataloging Party: Nov. 15 in Beverly, MA

Check out: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/10/flash-mob-cataloging-party.php

This is more directed towards the Mainers, but if I drive down to Portland, can I hitch a ride (and split gas) the rest of the way?

Katya, it would be awesome if you came!

I'll be driving up from East Boston, if Bostonites need a ride.

I'd love to come, but that's the big middle day of the Boston Book Fair and I'm committed to stick around there for the day. I'll be there in spirit!

>Katya0133

Yes, I think we can do that. I'll talk to Mike about his plans. (I think he's coming.) Mike to the side, I was thinking that I might need to come down to Boston to ferry people, but if Boston is covered, then I can ferry from Maine instead.

>jbd1

Damn. I thought we'd snag you because you were in a bookish mode. Oh well.

Heh. I'm always in bookish mode, and that weekend more than most ... but I know I have a shift at the RBMS fair table that afternoon and some of the folks from the previous days' meetings will still be in town in the morning. Next time!

>3 sonyagreen: I'll make it if I can!

>7 jbd1: So, I'm going to drive 500 miles, but you can't take the morning off? I see how it goes. ;)

haha, hey, it's a volunteer gig! I can only do one at a time (contrary to the popular belief that there are actually three of me) :-)

Don't worry though - I'll be talking up LT the whole time.

>Katya0133

Where are you located?

>10 timspalding:

I'm in the Bangor area. (So the 500 miles is a bit of an exaggeration, since it would only be 240 each way, with the last 100 shared.)

Also, what is the current organization of the St. John's library? Do they have call numbers at all? A physical catalog?

Hi everyone, I'm a newly-minted Bostonian (5 days old), and I'd love to join in this effort and meet you all. I can either meet up at the commuter rail station in Beverly/Beverly Farms or somewhere in Boston itself (I'm in Quincy), if there's anyone leaving from there.

Michelle

Welcome Michelle! We'd love to have you.

I hadn't thought about commuter rail. That might be a way for people to do it if we can't get the cars to people.

What were you before?

It looks like the commuter rail is about 600 feet from the church.

Here's the Beverly Farms station on the Newburyport/Rockport Line.

On Saturday, you can take from North Station at the following times:
8:30 to get in at 09:12
10:15 to get in at 10:57
12:15 to get in at 12:57

and leave Beverly Farms to go back to North Station
02:26 to get in at 03:10
05:36 to get in at 06:22

Tim: I was in Singapore before. Just moved here to be with my husband.

Wow, I didn't realise the church was so close to the station. I don't mind taking the commuter rail, if there aren't enough cars.

Do you have any idea how late this is going to go? I'm interested in maybe participating, but due to prior commitments, I wouldn't be able to get there until maybe around 4:30. I just want to know if there's much point in driving all the way down, that being the case.

I don't really know, but my bet is that it doesn't go much beyond that. Where are you at?

I have a meeting in Chelmsford that will end at 3:30 and google maps says it would take about an hour to get to Beverly. Eh, I guess I'll sit this one out.

I started a wiki page for the event, to keep track of who's what and what's who. What?

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Flash-Mob_Cataloging_Party

The plan is to meet at 10 a.m. at the church. Anyone with laptops or cuecats are encouraged to bring them. There will be 6 computers there for us to use too.

The place has wireless. Woot.

Wear your teeshirt if you have one!

The person whose library this is is a student in my org class, and she is so thrilled - I just want you to know how much she appreciates this. I wish I could be there (giving a talk in Braintree somewhere). We will hear all about it from her afterwards, and some of the other students may be there (see earlier post). You guys rock.

Candy,

I'm so sorry you won't be there. If hear of any other un-cataloged libraries, we're jumping to do it.

Tim

I just stumbled upon this Friday night ... I'm disappointed that I won't be able to join you, it sounds like a lot of fun (and a "feel good" feeling!)

I'm joining the Bostonians group so I can set time aside for other local LT events.

(p.s. off topic, BUT, I wanted to let you know how much I've enjoyed the two author chats I participated in the past few weeks - Christopher Meeks and Joyce Hinnefeld. What a great resource!)

I hope we can find other libraries to do this to—and not just in Boston. I am completely sweet on the idea, and think that %0.0001 of other Americans must be too—enough for a pizza party anyway.

Wow!!! Who knew 1300+ items could be cataloged in such a short (fun) span of time. Thank you for letting us participate! It was my first "real" cataloging & LibraryThing experience - gotta say, it's pretty darn spectacular! big round of applause to Amy for initiating and hosting this "flash-mob" - I'm sure you'll get some extra-credit Candy points ;) And a standing ovation for the LibraryThing team, a magical ensemble of do-ers.

:)

Meanwhile, you have no books. Where do you live? We're coming over!

Photos, I need photos!

I just got started on this thing today. Now with the new catscan - the world will be mine .
Seriously though, thanks for the fantastic introduction to LibraryThing.

I had a great time -- here's my blog posting about the event: http://tinyurl.com/5us3mj

It includes a couple of pictures, which I also added to the Flickr LibraryThing group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/librarything_/

I hope this will inspire other LibraryThingers out there to organize events in their own areas -- the world is full of organizations with small, uncataloged collections that need to be made known!

Oh yay - pictures - thanks Elizabeth. can't wait to hear about this in class. I must just say that although I wasn't there, I was talking about LT (and other things) to alums.

And Sonya has photos up on Flickr too (link on the recap blog post)

Any tips for a group who are new to LibraryThing, and have a completely inexperienced group of volunteers ready to get together and start on our church library on March 7??

Hi ZionBufffalo,

We should start a wiki page for anyone who's going to be flash-mob cataloging, to keep track of all the useful information we glean.

Email me if you'd like to ask specific questions.

Sonya
sonya@librarything.com

how often do you do it ?! i'm quite new to the whole librarything phenomenon .. :)

signed
-n00b

We've had one flash-mob so far - complete with people who work for LibraryThing. There's another one in the works:
http://www.librarything.com/blog/2009/02/flash-mob-cataloging-party-rhode-island...