Book cataloging
Oct. 9th, 2005 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflySo a lot of this weekend has revolved around Cataloging Our Library.
That was the plan, it's turned out more to be cataloging significant portions of our library.
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kd5mdk and jazz007 came up very late Friday night, and then we stayed up entirely too late after that chatting with them. Saturday morning after breakfast I picked up sandy_tyra, Rhiannon, and Shawn. We started out at it, starting with the paperback fiction, which got scanned, uploaded, checked, stickered with a star, alphabetized, and put on the shelves. More than 1000 paperback fiction books, not counting the "problem children", the ones without ISBNs or LoC numbers. There's rather a lot of those, as selenite inherited a lot of OLD sf from his father. We finished by about dinnertime, and were tired. Gerry Tyra came over, and the evening mostly shifted to computer stuff.
This morning after brunch, sincekd5mdk and jazz007 were still here and still willing, we tackled the hardback fiction. We got an even higher percentage of problem children, but all the ones that could go in by scanning or isbns are in. Total so far in the database is 1272.
We'll have to tackle the nonfiction a bit at a time, and slowly go through and manually enter all the problem children. And then get upstairs for the kids' books, my crafts books, my midwifery books, etc. This will take a while. But we've made a good start, thanks to our friends coming and helping.
PICTURES! From today - I should have gotten some of the Tyras yesterday, but I didn't.
That was the plan, it's turned out more to be cataloging significant portions of our library.
kd5mdk and jazz007 came up very late Friday night, and then we stayed up entirely too late after that chatting with them. Saturday morning after breakfast I picked up sandy_tyra, Rhiannon, and Shawn. We started out at it, starting with the paperback fiction, which got scanned, uploaded, checked, stickered with a star, alphabetized, and put on the shelves. More than 1000 paperback fiction books, not counting the "problem children", the ones without ISBNs or LoC numbers. There's rather a lot of those, as selenite inherited a lot of OLD sf from his father. We finished by about dinnertime, and were tired. Gerry Tyra came over, and the evening mostly shifted to computer stuff. This morning after brunch, since
kd5mdk and jazz007 were still here and still willing, we tackled the hardback fiction. We got an even higher percentage of problem children, but all the ones that could go in by scanning or isbns are in. Total so far in the database is 1272.We'll have to tackle the nonfiction a bit at a time, and slowly go through and manually enter all the problem children. And then get upstairs for the kids' books, my crafts books, my midwifery books, etc. This will take a while. But we've made a good start, thanks to our friends coming and helping.
PICTURES! From today - I should have gotten some of the Tyras yesterday, but I didn't.
