Dear Rachel et al, Just to add some more input to this discussion, there's a list on the AJL wiki of various automation systems in use by synagogue libraries. It's at http://www.jewishlibraries.org/main/Resources/AJLWiki/tabid/200/Default.aspx?topic=Automation+for+Synagogue+and+Center+Libraries Many of them are online systems so there's no need to go the extra step of putting your holdings online - all you need is to supply the link to your membership.
Best of luck with your project, Joyce On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Rachel Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > We started to play around with ours this Sunday. We are going to go with > Library Thing. http://www.librarything.com/. The catalog was originally > cataloged in ProCite 5. They use the Weine Classification System. From > ProCite, you can export a file into a .txt document and then upload it into > Library Thing. It costs $25 to add more than 200 records. You pay the fee > only once for the whole life of the library. It has the Dewey and Library > of Congress Classification numbers already in Library Thing. This is really > nice for a synagogue library that hasn't placed classification numbers on > the books yet. > > I discovered a couple problems with using the website. It does not always > recognize all of the records that are uploaded. This could be because there > is a duplicate record, because the edition is out of print and you have a > different ISBN number on the book, the book is extremely rare and not in > Library of Congress or amazon.com, or a previous record in Library Thing > had too many mistakes. I found a record had previously been entered into > Library Thing with the first name and last name reversed, as well as a > record with just a last name. So I had to select those to add to the > catalog by hand and correct the incorrect records. After uploaded the list, > I checked all of the records in Library Thing with those in my files that I > uploaded to make all of the corrections needed and add the additional > copies that we had to the Library Thing catalog when we had more than one > copy of the book. So far we have only uploaded 174 books, which is our > Juvenile Fiction section. We have nearly 4000 books. You can see how this > has turned out at > http://www.librarything.com/catalog/OakParkTemple. > > Once we have finished we can link to this from the Synagogue's website and > announce it in the newsletter. Hopefully that will bring in more attention > from the members and more books will be checked out. > > Rachel Fischer > MLIS Student at Dominican University, River Forest, IL > > > --- On *Wed, 2/1/12, [email protected] <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [ha-Safran] Question about posting our catalogue online > To: "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 5:10 PM > > Our library is preparing to post our small catalogue on our synagogue > website. For those of you that have done this, what are the issues you > think we need to consider before posting? > > Thanks in advance for your help > > Jenny Schnoll, Librarian > Congregation Darchei Noam > Toronto > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual > author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries > (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: > [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > > > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual > author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries > (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > > -- *Joyce Levine * *Director of Library and Media Services* *North Shore Hebrew Academy High School 400 North Service Road Great Neck, NY 11020 President, Synagogues, Schools and Centers Division Association of Jewish Libraries* <[email protected]>
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