There is no way I could convince them to pay for that! $25 for a library that no one usually uses is all that they would agree to. Rachel
--- On Tue, 2/21/12, Susan Dubin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Susan Dubin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Question about posting our catalogue online To: "Rachel Fischer" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 5:19 PM Have you looked at OPALS? It is a full library circ and catalog with web posting capabilities. Susan Dubin From: Rachel Fischer Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Question about posting our catalogue online 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: wlmailhtml:/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: wlmailhtml:/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 wlmailhtml:/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
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