After talking about LibraryThing to a few people at CIL, I decided to take the plunge and get the lifetime membership. I’ve just set it to the task of importing the list of my books that have ISBNs. (I’ve got an Access database of my complete fiction collection.) The import list is 2,963 books long. I guess I’m doing my part to add to the LibraryThing database. (Just to put this in perspective, as crazy as that perspective is, my import list does not include my non-fiction, nor the aproximately 1000 books that are old enough to not have ISBNs.) You can access my catalog at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/travelinlibrarian where an RSS feed is also available.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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