Bookish Query

[keilexandra]

How are you keeping track of your personal library? I've been cataloging with Libra, but it's long out of active development and the new Amazon search changes make it really impractical. I have some limited experience with AACR2 standards and am willing to use those for my personal collection, if I could find a free program to do it in. Are there any open-source library cataloging programs, casual or professional, out there?

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You don't want to do it like I do. I have a spreadsheet entered by hand.

[keilexandra]

That was my second thought, but it seems rather exponentially more difficult as the library grows in size.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

So far the effort of switching systems is looking to me like a lot more trouble than hand-entering a few books now and again, but I may well be underestimating how much a modern system could do for me. But yes, the startup costs are huge.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

My sister and I once started a written list. This died very quickly. :-D