More library cataloging

[celticdragonfly]

As may have been obvious from my previous entry, we are working on cataloging more of our library into Readerware. Some time back we had a big work party and did just about all the fiction - there are still piles of "problem children" in each section of the alphabet, stuff without ISBNs that I have to manually enter. I've cleared those for the paperback A's, B's, and C's. Mostly tonight I'm working on adding in more of the nonfiction, which we'll be shelving by Dewey Decimal numbers.

I am enough of a book geek that it makes me VERY happy to be doing this. To me, this is getting the house more organized and under better control. Others may not see it that way - but selenite and I do, and we're happy together.

It's up to 1,457 so far.

It's rather interesting, seeing what comes by in non-fiction, the rather specialized books that selenite has. It can sometimes be pretty clear what belongs to whom. History of Warfare, and A Natural History of Love - not hard to figure out which is whose, is it?

Comments

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Not especially. ;)

Glad to see you're making progress. I can't wait until we can finally declare our collection "organizedish" and start with the cataloging. Actually, that might be after our next move, whatever that is.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

I've been doing a bit of Readerware-work myself lately, only tackling one bookshelf, though.

This particular shelf was mostly non-fiction; biography and history, with a bit of electronics/ham radio and philosophy thrown in, so a lot of them had Library of Congress numbers if they didn't have ISBN's. I think I only had to manually type-in about a dozen from the whole batch (a 3-shelf unit, about 3 feet long).