It's TinyCat's 7th Birthday! (Give us your "books & cats"!)

Happy Birthday to TinyCat! We started giving small libraries the best, most user-friendly and affordable library management solution—all powered by LibraryThing—back in 2016. With over 31,000 signups, we're proud to help schools and classrooms, churches, game clubs, human rights groups, nonprofits, and so many other organizations with their lending libraries.

To give you all our thanks during TinyCat's birthday celebration, we have a couple of treats for you:

Store Sale

For the next month until Friday, May 5, we're running a major sale on all of our CueCat scanners, barcode labels, and TinyCat merch in the LibraryThing Store. Be sure to take advantage of the deals and stock up this month while you can: https://www.librarything.com/more/store.

"Books & Cats" TinyCat Giveaway

To celebrate 7 years, we're giving away 7 prizes to our TinyCat members! 6 of our 7 winners—all chosen at random—will have the choice to receive a free set of TinyCat/LibraryThing coasters or a free TinyCat pin. The grand prize winner will receive our very last, organic-cotton, TinyCat tote bag in stock, perfect for all of the book hauls and beach gear this summer.

Here's how to enter the "Books & Cats" TinyCat Giveaway:

• Give us your books & cats! Post a "shelfie" (a picture of your favorite bookshelf in your library) or a picture of your cat/s (we will accept other fur babies).



• Post your pics on this Talk thread, or tag TinyCat_lib in a post on Twitter: just be sure to include a link to your TinyCat library too.



• The deadline to enter your "Books & Cats" post is Friday, May 5 (23:59:00 EDT).



• Want a bonus entry? Post a photo or two with your books AND cats (or fur babies).

Giveaway winners will be selected and notified the week of May 8. Best of luck, and thanks for another great year with TinyCat!

These are my three cats! Ellie (up front), Smudge (the attacker), and Beans (the victim). I love this photo because it reminds me of a renaissance painting.

When Smudge is not causing chaos, she is helping me get through by TBR.

Unlike Ellie, who loves to get in the way of my TBR progress.

Haha, these are great! I especially love the "boop" photo of all 3 kitties.

How do I upload a photo?

https://pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/b4/b7/b4b778827274f0f636e4e733377437...

https://pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/55/a5/55a535bba144c1e636e46733377437...

Catalog Link: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Kinyon_Library

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Happy Birthday TinyCat, I'm sure you'll grow up to BigCat like me.



Look at how tiny I was when they found me

>6 Kinyon_Library: So cute!

Once you upload a photo, you can insert it directly into a Talk post by using the (img src="IMAGE URL HERE") inside chevrons instead of parentheses.

Like so:

>8 SandraArdnas: That is SO tiny! The tiniest tiny cat. Adorable.

{img src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/9b/2d/9b2d95b09f991b9636c4b6833774377424c4145_v5.jpg"}

This is Daeg. He's 16 years old. His hobbies are sleeping, eating, and meowing for no apparent reason.

Tinycat link: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/centralnorthcoc

This is Daeg. He's 16 years old. His hobbies are sleeping, eating, and meowing for no apparent reason.

Tinycat link: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/centralnorthcoc

Daeg looks like such a sweetheart! Thanks for sharing/entering!

Where there's a book, there's a cat!



Hello *Labou*



Sweet *Roxie*



The Late *Nyla*



and lastly, *Scout*

Oh, and I can be found here - https://www.librarycat.org/lib/1TeacherMom

We don't have any cats at our school, but our little school library has fair number of books with cats on the cover! Here is one of our shelves, with at least 13 cats pictured on book covers. There might be others currently checked out....


And here is the link to the Gerda-Juhasz Bücherei -- the library at the German Language School Cleveland: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/DSSCle

You might enjoy taking a look at the bracket from our recent March Madness style book tournament -- the link to that is at the bottom of our library homepage!

>14 1TeacherMom: What a cute set of kitties! Are Labou and Roxie siblings? They both look like peanuts, so cute.

>15 DSSCle: Oh I love this shelfie! Thanks for sharing!

https://pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/6f/23/6f2362fd14865f36374444c3377437...

https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Taphophile13

>17 Taphophile13: Aw, I love multicolored kitties, they look soft! Thanks for entering!

>19 IntegrisMedLib: Cute! Thanks for entering!

>23 joyblue:

Copy the url to the image in your gallery (the image itself, not the gallery page), and follow instructions in >9 kristilabrie:

Or follow the w3schools tutorial

As much as I adore cats, I'm allergic to them (and dogs, and probably other fur babies, too). What's a highly allergic, introverted bookdragon to do? Meet Milo, zen python (named after the boy in The Phantom Tollbooth).



https://www.librarything.com/profile/joyblue

https://www.librarycat.org/lib/joyblue

>25 Petroglyph: Petroglyph You rock! The clue I needed was the url for the image (vs. gallery page). Thanks!

>24 Bookmarque: I think I see the toy mouse but I love that it looks like they're looking for their next great read! :)

>26 joyblue: Pythons are cool (blooded), too! ;)

>28 kristilabrie: Actually that's a tiny bird's nest I stuck up there and old Thomas must have smelled it and had to check it out. He was a love.

>30 Bookmarque: Haha even better! I love it.

>26 joyblue: You are beautiful, Milo!

This is Lenny:



https://librarycat.org/lib/unigon (https://library.unigon.net)

>33 unigon: Oh I love their coloring! I also have a tuxedo cat, Shadow:

>29 kristilabrie: LOL—indeed! ;-)

>32 tamara.klassen81: Milo says thank you! ;-)

Scratch that, today will be the last day to get your entries in!

Okay, folks, thanks for your entries! There are some great gems of furry (and scaly) friends here. Giveaway is now closed and winners will be picked next week. Stay tuned. :)

Okay, winners for TinyCat's 7th Birthday Giveaway have been picked!

The 6 winners of our TinyCat enamel pins* are:
James_Knupp
Kinyon_Library
hathorregrande
centralnorthcoc
DSSCle
unigon

And the grand prize winner of TinyCat's very last (gorgeous) tote bag is 1TeacherMom!

I will be reaching out to you separately by email/DM to collect your information... congrats!

Thanks for participating, everyone! Until next year. :)

*Our TinyCat/LibraryThing coasters sold out this month!