Well, LibraryThing *is* the answer! :)
I can send her a CueCat barcode scanner. They're usually $15, but we
give them away at shows and so forth, and I like the cause...
For what it's worth, though, even a super-fast barcode scanner isn't
much faster than searching and adding. Most books have barcodes, but
some don't, or they have a supermarket code, or they have a retailer
barcode pasted over the real code. (We handle Borders codes, but not
others.) And when you use a barcode scanner you interact less with the
books, so it's less enjoyable.
Tim
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:53 PM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Any suggestion from you all that might help this person?
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> --- On Wed, 6/2/10, Stephanie Zimmerman <slzimm1_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> From: Stephanie Zimmerman <slzimm1_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: [Web4lib] "Homemade" Catalog
> To: publib_at_webjunction.org, web4lib_at_webjunction.org, "T is For Training" <tisfortraining_at_googlegroups.com>, learnrt_at_ala.org, nexgenlib_at_googlegroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 4:35 PM
>
>
> Hi,
>
> (Please excuse cross-postings)
>
> One of my coworkers was awarded a grant and is required to organize a small
> library at a local Youth Intervention Center. Here's what she is asking...
>
> "As part of the grant we’re receiving from United Way, we’ve agreed to
> organize the YIC library. We were hoping to create documentation of
> everything the YIC owns. Rather than enter this into a spreadsheet on our
> own, we were wondering what kind of free library software is out there… I
> have heard of some for MAC that are not free, like Monster Delicious – where
> you use the iSight to scan ISBN and it loads all the information (title,
> author, publication, etc.) into a program that looks much like iTunes. Do
> you know of anything free for a PC that we could do something similar, but
> with a normal scanner like we use for checking out library books? Like
> perhaps we could scan ISBN’s and it would bring up all the information into
> a program? We would use this information to make quality book purchases for
> the future – by seeing what topics we need more of and so on…"
>
> I did some research on Library Thing but don't see a way to scan the books
> in which would save a lot of time. Does anyone know of any free or low cost
> way to do such a thing?
>
> Thanks for your time!
> Sincerely,
>
> Stephanie Zimmerman
> Training Coordinator
> Library System of Lancaster County
> 1866 Colonial Village Lane, Suite 107
> Lancaster PA 17601
> phone: 717.207.0500 x 1281
> fax: 717.207.0504
> email: szimmerman_at_lancasterlibraries.org
> website: www.lancasterlibraries.org
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