[Web4lib] [Publib] "Homemade" Catalog

[Alain]

Hello!

Before you invest any time in this take a careful look at the kind of documents they have in the YIC library.  In most places, in most small documentation libraries like this the shelves (or filing cabinets given the formats) are filled with "grey" literature.  That kind of document does not usually have an ISBN and the bar code that comes with it.  So, you have to enter things manually and then do a manual/visual check of data in a second phase. In a case like this you'll be looking for a different kind of software.  A spreadsheet might even do.

Alain Vaillancourt

--- En date de : Mer, 2.6.10, Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> De : Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com>
> Objet : Re: [Web4lib] [Publib] "Homemade" Catalog
> À : "Stephanie Zimmerman" <slzimm1 at gmail.com>
> Cc : "T is For Training" <tisfortraining at googlegroups.com>, learnrt at ala.org, nexgenlib at googlegroups.com, web4lib at webjunction.org, publib at webjunction.org
> Date: mercredi 2 juin 2010 16 h 40
> LibraryThing was my first thought,
> and it will accept ISBNs. LT has
> organized several cataloging blitzes for organizations like
> the one
> you describe.
> 
> Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
> Technology Librarian
> http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/
> "Have you tried switching it off and on again?"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Stephanie Zimmerman <slzimm1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > (Please excuse cross-postings)
> >
> > One of my coworkers was awarded a grant and is
> required to organize a small
> > library at a local Youth Intervention Center.  Here's
> what she is asking...
> >
> > "As part of the grant we’re receiving from United
> Way, we’ve agreed to
> > organize the YIC library.  We were hoping to create
> documentation of
> > everything the YIC owns.  Rather than enter this into
> a spreadsheet on our
> > own, we were wondering what kind of free library
> software is out there…  I
> > have heard of some for MAC that are not free, like
> Monster Delicious – where
> > you use the iSight to scan ISBN and it loads all the
> information (title,
> > author, publication, etc.) into a program that looks
> much like iTunes.  Do
> > you know of anything free for a PC that we could do
> something similar, but
> > with a normal scanner like we use for checking out
> library books?  Like
> > perhaps we could scan ISBN’s and it would bring up
> all the information into
> > a program?  We would use this information to make
> quality book purchases for
> > the future – by seeing what topics we need more of
> and so on…"
> >
> > I did some research on Library Thing but don't see a
> way to scan the books
> > in which would save a lot of time.  Does anyone know
> of any free or low cost
> > way to do such a thing?
> >
> > Thanks for your time!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Stephanie Zimmerman
> > Training Coordinator
> > Library System of Lancaster County
> > 1866 Colonial Village Lane, Suite 107
> > Lancaster PA  17601
> > phone:  717.207.0500 x 1281
> > fax:  717.207.0504
> > email:  szimmerman at lancasterlibraries.org
> > website:  www.lancasterlibraries.org
> > Training Blog:  http://lslctraining.blogspot.com
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