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1Wordsmatter
Fév 2, 2020, 10:39 am

I belong to a small group wanting the share their books. The books are in possession of the owner. I am struggling with understanding how Tiny Cat can be used to help group members indicate they would like a book and get the book to the requestor. Also, I can't figure out where the Patron sign-in page is located once the profile is created, what link should they go to? I appreciate any guidance the group may offer.

2MarthaJeanne
Modifié : Fév 2, 2020, 3:33 pm

You might do better with each member of your group joining LT and entering the books available to lend. If you create a private group, it would be easy to discuss how to transfer books in that group. The members could use the lending feature to keep track of who has what from their libraries.

3kristilabrie
Fév 3, 2020, 9:04 am

>1 Wordsmatter: More to what >2 MarthaJeanne: explained, it would be challenging to have multiple libraries and owners sharing one TinyCat/LibraryThing account. There's only one admin login per TinyCat/LibraryThing account, and that would surely make room for confusion with any changes made to settings, books added or deleted, etc.

It's best to have one TinyCat account or catalog per library/owner, for easier circulation and patron management.

That said, you could create a Group on LibraryThing for your people (explained in >2 MarthaJeanne:) and search/share the Group's books that way, using LibraryThing's Lending feature (outlined here: https://blog.librarything.com/main/2015/02/new-feature-lending-a-k-a-circulation... for tracking circulation.

4njmabooks
Fév 8, 2020, 9:50 pm

I recently joined Library Cat to organize the library of the New Jersey Mycological Association.
I am confused. I go to one page to move the books to Tiny Cat and it shows 7 books loaded. When I go to another page,it only shows 3 of those books as being in my library.
When I try to edit changes in the settings,nothing happens.

Help!

5MarthaJeanne
Modifié : Fév 9, 2020, 3:32 am

>4 njmabooks: You have different collections. If you are looking at 'All Collections' right now, you will see 9 books. If you are looking at 'Your library' you will see 6 books. If you are looking at 'Eugene H Varney' you will see three. In LT you can change the collection you are looking at in the top right of the 'Your books' header. To change which collections show up in TinyCat you need to go to the TinyCat settings.

Right now, all your books are in TinyCat. Books can be in more than one collection, so you might want to add the three Eugene H Varney books to 'Your books'.