PORTING KIT ORGANIZE LIBRARY SOFTWARE

Every time I receive a new book I immediately add it into my catalog. Adding a book takes only a few seconds per title. If I have already added that book it will let me know there is a duplicate in the library.

PORTING KIT ORGANIZE LIBRARY SOFTWARE

In 99 out of 100 cases, the software will find the book (at Amazon, the Library of Congress, or any other number of places) and all I need to do is click to confirm it’s found the correct one. I simply click “Add Books” and type in a title or an ISBN number. As of the moment I write this, I have cataloged 1079 books which represents the bulk of my library (I didn’t add some of the older and more obscure theological volumes). I created a custom view for myself so I see them sorted by entry date so that the book I added most recently is at the top). If interested, you can see the results here: My LibraryThing Catalog (As a visitor to the catalog you’ll see the books ordered by title. While I do not often use the social networking features, I’ve found the site indispensable in organizing my library and in creating metadata about my books. A product of this Web 2.0 world, it also encourages social networking, linking the libraries of various users in interesting and creative ways.

LibraryThing is a great service that allows you to catalog your books through their web site. To organize my library I depend on both of these orders of order. It represented the second order of order.

This card catalog contained information about the book, it’s title, author, and perhaps most importantly, the place you could find it. Think of an old-fashioned card catalog–the kind you used to see at libraries. In this second order we create metadata, which is information about information. This is helpful, but is best used in combination with the second order of order. As soon as we do anything with those books, placing them on shelves, sorting them by author, and so on, we have entered into the first order of order. In the first order of order we organize physical objects–in this case books. Perhaps it is helpful to first understand the orders of order. This growing collection has caused me to have to get a bit creative with managing the library, so in response to questions from some of this site’s readers, I thought I’d tell how I keep my library in some semblance of order. Some publishers are eager to have me read and review their books (with tens of thousands of new books flooding the market each year they are anxious to have anyone review them!) and new titles come flowing in on an ongoing basis. While I do collect books, many of these come in because I am a book reviewer. At that point every wall in my office will be hidden behind bookcases. I have room along my walls for two more bookcases (though they’ll have to go between my desk and the wall, meaning that my desk will be pressed hard up against the shelves). In many places books are piled from the top of the bookcases to the ceiling. I’ve only got room remaining for three of those church history prints. A year later the three available walls of my office are lined with bookcases, all of which are stuffed to overflowing. I couldn’t quite fit all my books in there (the military history books are still in boxes in the basement) but it did suffice for all of my other books. When we moved into our current house just over one year ago, I had, to the best of my recollection, four bookcases in my office which left me lots of wall space to hang prints of some of my heroes of church history. Though it is currently not all that large, as these things go, it is growing at an alarming rate.

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