![]() ![]() Now, again, working top-down, left-to-right, take books out in sets of eight. Once you are certain your list is accurate and complete, print (or put on your phone) the list of books. If you missed a book, or couldn't read the spine from the recording, add it here. Set yourself or someone else up transcribing the titles from the recording, in the order shelved. In good lighting, play it over the shelves, one by one, from left to right. Next, grab an SLR (or equivalent mirrorless) camera with video mode. It's critical that the books not go wandering or get rearranged during this process. It worked great:įirst, close the library (or library section) until your work is complete. I had a gig doing this once in grad school. Paperback and hardcover books have separate ISBNs. ISBN, by the way, will tell you the format of the book. It can also look up by the LOC catalog number (which is not the call number but rather a consecutively assigned number which can be found on the copyright page of books published starting some time in the 1960s). ![]() These will need to be entered manually (not to bad with the mobile app which has a dedicated ISBN keyboard). The gotcha is that mass-market paperback before sometime in the 80s (I probably have the date wrong) do not have the ISBN in them. LibraryThing's mobile app will scan barcodes just fine. I wanted to be able to shelve books by LoC call number and this has a pretty good (although not always complete) lookup for most call numbers (I have learned how to generate a call number for books that don't have them and also discovered that the University of Chicago Library doesn't use the same cutter numbers that the LoC and most other libraries use). ![]() I'll second the recommendation for LibraryThing. ![]()
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