Does the "Search Site" box confuse your congregation?

DiscussionsChurch Libraries

Rejoignez LibraryThing pour poster.

Does the "Search Site" box confuse your congregation?

Ce sujet est actuellement indiqué comme "en sommeil"—le dernier message date de plus de 90 jours. Vous pouvez le réveiller en postant une réponse.

1DebKKirwan
Juin 21, 2014, 4:47 pm

LT looks to be exactly what our church library needs to organize online. I love that we can give members of the congregation the URL (without the password), and they can go online and search to see what we have in our collection. However, I'm afraid that they will be confused by the "Search Site" box and use it instead of the "Search Your Library" box when doing their searches. LT says that they are planning a way to "sandbox" your library (thereby limiting searches to the items in your library), but don't have it available yet. Do you have this problem? Do you have a way to resolve it or work around it?

2razzamajazz
Juin 21, 2014, 11:30 pm

LT is a very good tool to organize and catalogue home libraries,church libraries and small community libraries( small neigborhood libraries)'

"Search Site" and "Search Your Library" are two different boxes to use.

Search Site: Searching other "Groups" and other information in the LT's website only.

To search a book title in your book collection. Do not Click or Ignore the box,
"Search Site" entirely.

Using "Search Your Library", type the book title and it will surely shows the availability of the book in your church library.

To add value to your online LT catalogue's listing, you can include the location of the book - Book Rack Number &
Shelf Number beside having the Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress labels on the books for easy locating the book.

This is how I will use this method before the full implementation of "sandboxing" the collection of books onb individual basis.