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Catalog transition - would love your recommendations!

Posted by Meredith Riddle on March 17, 2014 at 12:58
Hello,

Our church library had a several thousand dollar/year budget - including about 1,000 for collections plus costs of hourly staffing, 12h/week, but our board has decided to eliminate my position and all expenditures.

My biggest concern right now is the elimination of our catalog. We use a web-based cataloging software that we license for $500/year. We do cataloging and circulation through there. We will no longer license beginning in summer, which means we lose all ability to search for materials by author/title/keyword; we lose our patron and circulation records; we lose our ability to do basic copy cataloging.

I'm wondering if any of you use freeware or a simple spreadsheet to handle circulation, patron records, bibliographic information, etc. If you do, I would love a sample of your formatting, images of how you work it, etc.

Any and all help you can provide would be much appreciated. God bless!

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  • Meredith Riddle March 17, 2014 13:01

    I should add that we have about 7,000 items. Our collection is mostly monographs, but we also have periodicals, DVDs, CDs, and a reference section.

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