Is there a way to post, in one area of the ning, the links to members' church library websites and OPACs? We are getting ready to set ours up, and I would like to see various examples.
Thanks!
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I totally misunderstood what you were asking. I will add the link to Joanne's post here. Thanks!
Do you know how to zoom in on your screen? Or make your screen smaller? I have a hunch the red box on the right side will show up then. Since you are seeing the red box on the other tabs, that means the red box is here too but your view here is too big.
OPAC address for Winnipeg Evangelical Free Church (Canada): https://16620.rmwebopac.com/
Our OPAC is an optional part of our library software called ResourceMate. We are very happy with it! Available in the USA as well!
There are 72 church libraries with OPACs in the United States. These are tracked by a web site called librarytechnology.org and maintained by Marshall Breeding. Anyone can search the database of library OPACs by going to http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/ and use the drop-down filter to filter by church libraries. When our church catalog went online, we didn't notify them, but our catalog showed up in their database within a few days.
BTW, you can see our catalog at http://library.fbcraytown.com/libs/fbr/index.html .
Blessings,
Mary Odom
http://www.wbcc.net/pages/page.asp?page_id=146114
This is our library page on the church website. We are rolling out a new church-wide website on Easter, so this one has not been updated much lately. You can search our database from here, but it looks a little different from what you might call the OPAC station on our campus. This link is not real-time (the file has to be updated on the server periodically), and the info you see is very basic - although you can adjust that. The OPAC/patron search software on campus is linked directly to the computer running the software, so those searches are real time, and they include MUCH more info. If you want to see that, i could perhaps do a screenshot and send that to you.
There are plenty of free websites and blog sites available on the web to set up a simply run Library website. We have attached our Library blog on a link from our church website. This is our church library website, for example-
http://st-timothy-church-library.blogspot.ca/ I have recently used "Library Thing" to catalogue our book collection, and to allow our congregation to browse our books...It is free up to 200 books.
Actually, the sky's the limit as to what you can do with a church library website. I hope to see more examples of church library websites posted here, also, for inspiration.
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