Q&A

Classifying Non-Fiction

We have a very small church library that needs reorganized and cleaned up. How do you classify your Non-Fiction section without using Dewey or Library of Congress? I am thinking of organizing by author's last name to keep it simple and doing the same

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Catalog: Curated Collections: Location

As we progress in revitalizing our library, we are grouping some collections of certain non-fiction topics, such as Discipleship, Grief, etc. We are not pulling every book off the shelf that has to do with a subject to move to each collection but wil

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Exporting a catalog to another software vendor?

We have been told recently that our library may have to change from Follett to Surpass due to Follett pricing continuing to rise.  Also, we are so behind on Follett updates that if we upgraded, our server would not be able to support Follett. Would t

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Category Labels for Young People's Books

We are in the process of revitalizing and reorganizng our small church libary. I would like to break down the categories on the children's shelf. The children's books all fit in one tall bookcase that has six shelves. There are books ranging from pic

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Doing an inventory in Concourse

It’s been a long time since our last inventory at my church library. It was done before I became the librarian. Can anyone walk me through the basics? We are automated (with barcodes) with Concourse and EZCat for cataloging and circulation, not Atriu

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Secular books?

Hello!

I am wondering if anyone has chosen to include any secular books in their libraries, and if so, what is the procedure that you followed?  

Our pastor has highly recommended a secular book, written by a non-christian author.  He believes the cont

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Connecting Church Mission to Cataloging Categories on Shelving Signs

We have another first! Our non-fiction shelf signage now has our church mission statement key words (Love, Grow, Serve, Go) connected to our Dewey categlories. A win-win for sure with our pastor and church staff. We use Dewey so the signs contain our

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Cataloging Books

I would like to know if anyone has a instruction manual for their libraries on how to catalog the books etc.  and how to know which category to put the books into.  

Thanks!

Carmy Heerboth

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Looking up a Dewey Decimal number by book title

Hello all,

I used to be able to look up a dewey decimal number for my non fiction books by going to an oclc webpage but it has been discontinued as of Jan 1 of this year.  I moved to NM and am now the church librarian at my new church and don't know w

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Small Displays Away from the Library

Babs Harris and her team are working on a small display in the adult area of their building. Question: When you have display locations away from the library that are not considered satellite location, how do you identify the locations of the items in

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Concourse inventory

Our library team has been conducting inventory of our library. None of us are very familiar with Concourse and the last time inventory was done was before Covid. We have completed the nonfiction, fiction, and DVD items but still have the children's i

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Atrium Card Image Question

I have recently noticed the card image of an item no longer includes the copyright date. Is this a new "update" feature of Atrium or have I inadvertently eliminated it somehow? Any observations?

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Shelving Books in a Series for Children

How are books such as the I Can Read Series : Daniel and the Lion's Den , Jesus is Born , Faith Gets Us Through catalogued for shelving. It seems to me that being placed together  would be easier for children to find. I've been out of this a while so

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Cataloging Multiple Pieces

Roxy Klassen asks the following question:

How do you catalog items that have multiple pieces? We have a good number of Small Group Study Materials. Most have a Teacher/Leader Guide; a DVD; and one or more student book/workbooks. We don't mind if the

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Radical Cataloging

I am trying a new idea of mine-- to catalog Biblical fiction with the book of the Bible it fictionalizes.  I clearly label the fiction with a sticker that says "Biblically Based Fiction" covered with an orange label cover.  I know nothing is new unde

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Children's Books Organization

 Any ideas on how to organize children's books (age 0-2nd grade)?  By suthor, title, age,etc.

Barbara Brown

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TinyCat questions

Pam Guin Asks:

If someone is using TinyCat/Library Thing for their very small library I would love to find out how they like it and some instructions on how some of it works.  I found YouTube videos but they are a few years old.

2 Replies:

Jean Lefer

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MARC Records for books with 979 ISBNs

Southcrest asks the following question:

Is anyone else having trouble locating MARC records for books with ISBNs that begin with the newly utilized 979 prefix?

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