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Cataloging your home library
I have a decent sized library of probably around 2-300 books, and it has been on my list of projects to-do to make a catalog/database for my library to quickly reference what I have. Do any of you...
I have a decent sized library of probably around 2-300 books, and it has been on my list of projects to-do to make a catalog/database for my library to quickly reference what I have. Do any of you catalog your libraries and if so what do you use for it?
I know Libid and LibraryThing are two of the big website/app ones, and it could be done with a Google Sheet or similar, but I was wondering if anyone here has any experience before I really get started.
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US libraries scramble for books after giant distributor shuts down
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Free training today to help fight book banning
Tonight at 7 pm Central/8 pm Eastern, there is a free workshop/training to help people learn how to make book résumés for highly targeted books. These would then go on the Unite Against Book Bans...
Tonight at 7 pm Central/8 pm Eastern, there is a free workshop/training to help people learn how to make book résumés for highly targeted books. These would then go on the Unite Against Book Bans website.
Quote from the UABB website on what a Book Resume is:
Book Résumés help teachers, librarians, parents, and community members defend books from censorship. They detail each title’s significance and educational value and are easy to share with administrators, book review committees, elected officials, and board members.
Their goal is to create a process for sourcing these résumés from the community because the ALA cannot keep up with demand (and is drowning with budget cuts).
The registration link for the training is here:
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Home book cataloguing suggestions
So I have a have maybe a few hundred books at home and I think it's time I put together a collection of what I have. I'd love a database of author / title / publication year / physical location...
So I have a have maybe a few hundred books at home and I think it's time I put together a collection of what I have. I'd love a database of author / title / publication year / physical location that I could search through ideally.
Is there software that can help with this? I had a brief look at LibraryThing, but I think it costs money for the quantity of books I'm looking at. I briefly toyed with the concept of making my own app that could scan an ISBN to speed up the process (since most will have ISBNs). I wonder what the people of Tildes suggest? Has anyone here done something similar?
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More than 80,000 manuscripts from the Vatican Library to be restored and digitized
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Border-straddling library raises $140K for renovations after US limits Canadian access
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A glimpse behind the bookshelves in Russia's small-town libraries
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How librarians saved the day in World War II
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Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators – aims to celebrate the work of an overlooked and underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI
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Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer – will pen a manuscript that won't be published until 2114
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It’s official: These thirteen books are now banned from all public schools in Utah
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Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas
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Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
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Queer Liberation Library offers free LGBTQ books in response to wave of US school bans
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Book borrowed from Finnish library returned eighty-four years late – copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's Refugees was due to be returned month after USSR invaded Finland
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Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries
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Digital books are costing local libraries a ton
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Six badass librarians who changed history
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Idaho libraries must move materials deemed harmful to children, or face lawsuits, under new law
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What resources are available in a modern library?
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What libraries risk when they go entirely digital
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US libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers
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Trolls targeted TikTok librarian Mychal Threets. Now he’s quitting to rediscover his library joy.
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Police bodycam shows sheriff hunting for 'obscene' books at library
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Researchers reveal lost library of Charles Darwin for the first time
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Choose Your Own Adventure - Forty-five years ago, one kids book series taught a generation how to make bad decisions
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Each year from 2014 to 2114, a manuscript is sealed in The Silent Room of Norway's Future Library – the goal: greater hope for humankind
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This library has most books ever published in the UK
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Houston Public Library launches self-service book kiosk at Hobby Airport
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Ending censorship applies to prison too - US prisons remain the institutions where the most censorship occurs
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The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts
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