[Publib] Software for small personal library

[Joshua Neff]

I was going to suggest LibraryThing, too.

Actually, Ed "Superpatron" Vielmetti just posted yesterday about
possibilities for a small circulating library:

http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2006/05/a_circulating_h.html 


--Joshua M. Neff
Indian Creek Branch
Olathe Public Library 

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Miriam Bobkoff
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:08 AM
To: Ruth Hayden
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Subject: Re: [Publib] Software for small personal library



>A friend would like to organize and catalog a small, private, personal 
>collection (possibly between 1,000 and 1,500 books). Does anyone know 
>of (or better yet recommends) a reasonably-priced basic software 
>cataloging system?
>
>Thank you for your ideas,
>Ruth Hayden

I suggest that she take a look at LibraryThing.com  $25 for a lifetime
membership (free for up to 200 books, so she can play with it and see if she
likes it), it's fun, and it's getting new features all the time. 
Simultaneously developing as a cataloging tool (more and more libraries to
snatch records from) and a social software environment. I thought I didn't
care about the social aspects, but was soon hooked. Who else has this
beloved book; what else do they have. Etc.

Right now LibraryThing has been thinking about the relationship between
subject headings brought overwith the records and tags that members assign
to the same books. It can only get more interesting over there.

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