[ISLMA-Share] Cataloging/Circulation system on near zero budget?

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You might investigate some of the apps available to catalog home library
collections (free or inexpensive). See
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/7-apps-cataloguing-your-home-library
I use Library World at ISRC -- $495/year. I import records from OCLC
Connexion, but there is an option to create simple records manually, which
I have done to catalog assistive technology devices and other realia items.
They offer a free 30-day trial.

Laurel Schilling
Library Paraprofessional
Western Springs School District 101

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What cataloging/circulation systems would you recommend for a very small
> school library with almost no budget?
>
> I'm an MLIS-degreed parent-volunteer at my daughter's school library, in a
> very small, private Montessori school (pre-K - 8).  The library has no
> librarian, no circulation system, and no cataloging system.  It is run
> entirely by parent volunteers. (Don't get me started).
>
> Our most urgent priority is to catalog the collection and get a
> functioning circulation system.  We don't have a computer but we could
> probably get a parent to donate one or to donate an iPad for library use.
>
> Is there anything we could do an on iPad that would help us to capture the
> metadata for the books we have (e.g. by scanning ISBNs?) with the camera
> and then use that in conjunction with a circulation system?  Student body
> is approx 400 students.
>
> I work primarily with academic libraries so I don't even know where to
> start with this!  Help!
>
> Thank you!
>
> Maria Ziemer
>
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