I’m starting a library at my church
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1EmmanuelLutheran2000
How do I get people on board with the concept of Library thing. I don’t want to have many books to start with because I am in a nursing home and I don’t have the capability of doing much other than work from my room here
I am proposing that we have a virtual library and that I work on a lot of our books that we already have like our hymnals, books that we have for Sunday school and Biblical instruction.
I’m also going to work on the online content we have put together like our YouTube videos and church services we have recorded on video
Is there any advice anyone can give me on the best way to do this or has anyone done this before?
I am proposing that we have a virtual library and that I work on a lot of our books that we already have like our hymnals, books that we have for Sunday school and Biblical instruction.
I’m also going to work on the online content we have put together like our YouTube videos and church services we have recorded on video
Is there any advice anyone can give me on the best way to do this or has anyone done this before?
2EGBERTINA
(sorry about the caps- wrong button - too much work to retype)
I CAN'T HELP YOU GET PEOPLE ON BOARD - BUT YOU CAN BEGIN BY ENTERING HYMNALS and other books, pamphlets, etc entered. Perhaps, after people will be interested - but that sounds like a tiny cat question.
I have entered such items, but they are from my personal library and nobody else shares my material.
I CAN'T HELP YOU GET PEOPLE ON BOARD - BUT YOU CAN BEGIN BY ENTERING HYMNALS and other books, pamphlets, etc entered. Perhaps, after people will be interested - but that sounds like a tiny cat question.
I have entered such items, but they are from my personal library and nobody else shares my material.
3kristilabrie
>1 EmmanuelLutheran2000: You may want to crosspost your question in the "Librarians who LibraryThing" Group: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/78/Librarians-who-LibraryThing
Are you looking for any advice on how to catalog your library? If so, you can review the Help page on the various ways you can add books (or other media) to your LibraryThing account: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/HelpThing:Addbooks
As for how to get your residents on board with an online library, the best way might be what >2 EGBERTINA: is suggesting. Catalog some records and start playing with the functionality of your catalog on LibraryThing. As EGBERTINA also suggests, you may want to consider adding a TinyCat subscription to your LibraryThing library, which transforms your LT catalog into a real, online catalog that is easily shared with your users and has nicer features for tracking your circulation and patron data. You can read more about TinyCat at https://www.librarycat.org, and let me know if you have further questions. (You can also post them in the TinyCat Group, which I monitor: https://www.librarything.com/groups/tinycat)
I hope this helps!
Are you looking for any advice on how to catalog your library? If so, you can review the Help page on the various ways you can add books (or other media) to your LibraryThing account: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/HelpThing:Addbooks
As for how to get your residents on board with an online library, the best way might be what >2 EGBERTINA: is suggesting. Catalog some records and start playing with the functionality of your catalog on LibraryThing. As EGBERTINA also suggests, you may want to consider adding a TinyCat subscription to your LibraryThing library, which transforms your LT catalog into a real, online catalog that is easily shared with your users and has nicer features for tracking your circulation and patron data. You can read more about TinyCat at https://www.librarycat.org, and let me know if you have further questions. (You can also post them in the TinyCat Group, which I monitor: https://www.librarything.com/groups/tinycat)
I hope this helps!
