The Library Thing now support lending aka circulation.
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The Library Thing now support lending aka circulation.
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i recommend LibraryThing combined with TinyCat. LibraryThng manages your materials. If you add Tags, it can be searched. Tags is their word for Subjects. I added Tags for not only the subject, but also the reading level. Especially handy for Baby, Preschool, Elementary, and Teen categories.
TinyCat manages your patrons and allows them to log in select books, renew items and pushs out overdue notices. There is a small fee for this app depending on your number of items. For a volunteer library, it is $3/month up to 500 items; $4/month up to 1,000 items, $6/month up to 2,000 items, $8/month up to 5,000 items, and so forth. Very reasonable.
Search for both and read their information and watch the YouTube videos. I found them intuitive to use.
Thank you, Shauna! I appreciate you sharing your expertise with me.
I made our church's online cataloge using LibraryThing and it was so easy, I loved it! That is, I loved it until I tried searching by subject and realized that could not be done. One must know the author's name or at least one word in the title. I am extreamly dissappointed and am now searching for another *free* platform on which to build our online card catalog.
any suggestions will be unbelievably appreciated!
You need to add TAGS to each item to create a subject search.
I've used the "tag" feature to include call numbers, but am I understanding you correctly that a search will bring tag results as well as titles and author names?
Yes.
Interesting! I'll have to check it out. Our church library needs something on computer & so I'm beginning my research.
If you enter your books on LibraryThing you can sign up for TinyCat and get a QR code for it so your patrons can search from anywhere using their phone or computer. Surprisingly easy to use.
Ann, I am using the free version of LibraryThing--do you happen to know if TinyCat is free, as well?
TinyCat manages your patrons and allows them to log in select books, renew items and pushs out overdue notices. There is a small fee for this app depending on your number of items. For a volunteer library, it is $3/month up to 500 items; $4/month up to 1,000 items, $6/month up to 2,000 items, $8/month up to 5,000 items, and so forth. Very reasonable.