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1UnivMenno
As a response to hsl2000 in the previous thread in our group:
Our church library is organized on the Dewey Decimal System. That's the way it's been for a couple decades, so when I entered all 1,000 volumes on LT I stuck with Dewey. Having looked at other church libraries, I now wish we had cataloging done by topic areas, say 12 or so. If all the theology had one colored tag, biographies another, etc., it would make it easier for my clientele to search the shelves.
While our church has gone WiFi, we have yet to procure a laptop for use as an in-house "card catalog." Right now our congregation has to refer to two sources: our 24/7 LT catalog at home, or "ask the librarian."
When I'm getting ready to enter a book on LT, I look a couple places for tag suggestions. First I use the ISBN on LT to bring up the data. But many of our books don't have an ISBN. So I next go to worldcat.org to search. Actually, I think WorldCat has a better listing of tags than LT.
Once I've entered the book and all its tags (you can peruse my library to see the kinds of tags we use), it's relatively easy to do a search on a particular topic. In celebration of Martin Luther King Day I searched for tags like African American, race relations, and South Africa. Once that list was assembled, it was easy to send a broadcast email out to the congregation.
About once a month I send out a broadcast email telling the congregation what new items have been added. I include a list of the tags for each book so members can get a better idea of what a book's about.
Our church library is organized on the Dewey Decimal System. That's the way it's been for a couple decades, so when I entered all 1,000 volumes on LT I stuck with Dewey. Having looked at other church libraries, I now wish we had cataloging done by topic areas, say 12 or so. If all the theology had one colored tag, biographies another, etc., it would make it easier for my clientele to search the shelves.
While our church has gone WiFi, we have yet to procure a laptop for use as an in-house "card catalog." Right now our congregation has to refer to two sources: our 24/7 LT catalog at home, or "ask the librarian."
When I'm getting ready to enter a book on LT, I look a couple places for tag suggestions. First I use the ISBN on LT to bring up the data. But many of our books don't have an ISBN. So I next go to worldcat.org to search. Actually, I think WorldCat has a better listing of tags than LT.
Once I've entered the book and all its tags (you can peruse my library to see the kinds of tags we use), it's relatively easy to do a search on a particular topic. In celebration of Martin Luther King Day I searched for tags like African American, race relations, and South Africa. Once that list was assembled, it was easy to send a broadcast email out to the congregation.
About once a month I send out a broadcast email telling the congregation what new items have been added. I include a list of the tags for each book so members can get a better idea of what a book's about.
2jlane
Terms listed with titles in WorldCat are equivalent to LT's subjects. They're LCSH-Library of Congress Subject Headings. You can view those in your own catalog by selecting the Subject column for display. The additional information that they provide can be helpful when you're choosing terms to use as LT tags.
Tags will display individually, and link to other users with the same tag, if you use a comma at the end of each term. The LT software uses that comma as an indicator that the term is finished. Without it, tags run together. For example, the title All for the Newborn Baby actually displays only two tags: Root(one link) and Phyllis - author; Jesus Christ; nativity; lullabies - English; juvenile library; Dewey - E ROO(second link). If you place commas where you have semicolons, the tags will be separated and give you access to semantic links.
Tags will display individually, and link to other users with the same tag, if you use a comma at the end of each term. The LT software uses that comma as an indicator that the term is finished. Without it, tags run together. For example, the title All for the Newborn Baby actually displays only two tags: Root(one link) and Phyllis - author; Jesus Christ; nativity; lullabies - English; juvenile library; Dewey - E ROO(second link). If you place commas where you have semicolons, the tags will be separated and give you access to semantic links.
