Volunteering at Your Other Library: How to Catalog for Congregational and Organizational Libraries Janifer Meldrum

Librarian Volunteers Do you leave your day job at the library and go to volunteer at another library? Church, synagogue, or other congregational library Museum library Association library School or media center Community reading room Small public library We provide cataloging to all of these.

Paid Job vs. Volunteering Money. Small libraries often work on a miniscule budget. Scale. Solutions that work in a large library are unnecessarily complex for a small library. For example, cataloging on OCLC is rarely appropriate. Professional skills. You have to be able to do everything in a small library—even cataloging! Time. If you only volunteer a few hours, every minute has to count. Keying in a cataloging record from scratch is a waste of time.

A Good Option: Using MARCIVE Money. Full cataloging at very low cost. No annual fees, searching fees, or minimum orders. Just pay for what you get. Scale. Our solutions are tailored to your needs –Order on the web –Send in a list of ISBNs Professional. Consistent, accurate cataloging and labels. Time-saving. A few minutes of work and you send off the order to us. Easy!

What Are the Steps? To initiate service, fill out our cataloging specifications profile. No cost. To use the MarciveWeb SELECT service: –Log in from anywhere, even from home. –Search our web database. Compare records. Select one. Add as-is or modify to order. –When ready, submit order to MARCIVE. –Import file of cataloging next business day. –Labels are shipped to you.

Profiled to Your Specifications MARC records, profiled to your system specs and tweaked by you, if desired, ready to load into any system including: Koha COMPanion Alexandria CyberTools EOS Voyager InMagic LibraryWorld

Let Us Help You With Affordable, Professional Cataloging Contact Customer Service for free and friendly help