Home Library Software

Today I learned about library software for the Über-geek Librarian (such as I). My local IT guy sent me the link, the URL of which sounds like a bad porn film, but is not. The software looks helpful, and I have a few friends who have, in the past, expressed a desire for something like this to help them organize their substantial book/media collection. Delicious appears to be made just for use on Macs and also geared towards those with large media collections, since the information on the item is gleaned from www.amazon.com (and other websites) after the barcode or ISBN is inputted. Therefore, if one had a book published before 1967, that person would have to enter all the cataloging data for each individual book. And that process could take a while.

Home/Personal Library Software is a wonderful concept, but I will have to look around for more options, since I, and many of my acquaintances, have a good many books in our collections that were published pre-1967. Chris owns so many non-English books I wonder how the software would react. This is something I will have to look into – the search for the best Home/Personal Library Software.