![]() But again, not sure how accurate it is and because it’s ALL books and not just my SpecFic books (which is my main concern, as the bulk of my TBR) it’s just not a good fit for what I have in mind. I could use librarything since I’m already there. And thus, the great cataloguing project was born! Right now I am looking to find out the exact number of books I have in my TBR pile–whether they are physical books, ebooks, or audiobooks–if they’re unread and I own them, I want them on a list. And the first step involves coming up a with an accurate list. Anyway, I have been thinking about this for a while now and I came up with a way to tackle this massive TBR. I think this is something that many bookworms can relate to. For a long time I’ve been accumulating books faster than I can read them and a lot of them are actually shelved and not in a ‘tbr’ pile. Remember that giant TBR pile I was mentioning? Well, that’s only some of my actual TBR. because I’m me and I need things to be perfect, hahaha …. It’s fairly accurate, but I’d like it to be 100% at some point…. I really need to go through and update the tags and also pull down the data into an excel and do a thorough match up/inventory–I have taken a few out of my library and may have forgotten to remove them from the catalog and there may be a couple I forgot to add, etc. I’ll admit that because I have so many books (2,265 at last count) that catalog has become a little unweildy. I also have a catalog of all my physical books on. And my giant TBR pile on my book cart and endtable overflow (it’s bad, y’all). ![]() With the exception of a ‘classics’ shelf in my living room. Those that are shelved are sorted by Fiction>Genre>Alphabetical by Author and Nonfiction>Subject. Now, my books are pretty well organized already. ![]() I love organizing things so a lot of my projects revolve around that. ResourceMate is obviously much more expensive than both Libib and Tin圜at, but within the max of the budget the library has to use on this project.Anywho. I have tried to find reviews of Libib and/or Tin圜at and really can not find much, the ones I have found are from the church library community, which has been a bit helpful.ĭoes anyone have experience using Libib or Tin圜at in a library setting? Or do you use ResourceMate and have strong feelings about it one way or another? They like the friendliness of both Libib and Tin圜at, but I am hesitant to take them in that direction because I am concerned Libib or Tin圜at will be too casual, in a sense, for the library. They want something that is very user friendly, because they often have volunteers, but often the volunteer is not a library science student. They have previously used Resource Mate maaaaany years ago. Also, it was once and will again be a circulating collection. My supervisor estimates they have between 5,000 and 9,000 titles. I don't know how long it is been, but books haven't been cataloged in a bit. The archives are the main draw of the library and the poor book collection has fallen by the wayside. More background: SCL is a small library and archives with only 2 paid staff. They have narrowed it down to Libib, Tin圜at, and ResourceMate. I just started volunteering at the Southern California Library (SCL) and my first task is to help them choose an ILS (I think I'm using that acronym correctly, I am in library science school so only sort of understand things in library world, which is why I am volunteering to get that experience, but I digress).
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