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[bliumchik]

Oh, LibraryThing. Oh, Tolkien. Why is it so bloody difficult to input my posession of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in one volume? BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING BURIED IN 753 WHACKY LOTR MOVIE PARAPHERNALIA SORT OF BOOK TYPE THINGS. That's why! Hoorah for an illustrated guide to the battles, armies and armour of middle-earth, and exploring the spiritual themes of lord of the rings, and the lord of the rings Oracle gift set, but all I want to catalogue is a bloody paperback that I got BEFORE THE MOVIE CAME OUT RAR.

ETA: I tell a lie, it's 2001, so I think at least one movie was already out. But still!

why don't I have a RAGE icon?

ETA 2: w00t.

Comments

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You have catalogue software? Does it let you make original records? Inquiring minds want to catalogue their bookshelves revise for cataloguing class.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

http://www.librarything.com ^_^

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

*clicks*

*looks about*

Eek! Copy cataloguing. I wonder if there's one that lets you make original records...

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Probably. You can't be the only person who's asked the question, and one of the others is statistically likely to be a programmer. To Google and Beyond!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

The problem seems to be that the software to do it is (a) commercial, (b) expensive, and (c) still not very good. This is partly because a neat little record like so:

Proven guilty : a novel of the Dresden files / Jim Butcher. - New York : Roc, 2006. - 406p. ; 24 cm. - (The Dresden files ; 8)
ISBN 0-451-46085-5

...gets wrapped up in a vast monstrosity of code. You can see what the code looks like (I'm not posting an example here) by going to a library catalogue, finding a record and clicking 'MARC view', 'librarian's view' or similar. The MARC standards can be found here (http://www.loc.gov/marc/), if you're keen to see them.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Not really. I'm not such a librarian buff XP

[annella.livejournal.com]

I have always had a soft spot for THIS rage icon.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fakeplastic/]

Maggie! this is unrelated, but I just watched Serenity! It was most awesome :)

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Yay! ^_^