What do you do if you're in a technical library, but you are not, technically, a librarian?
You embrace the joys of cataloguing. Repeatedly.
Our little architecture library has its own page of manually-entered titles on our internal wiki, and now
Steve has manually input them all into LibraryThing.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=cistiarchitecture
I had come up with a clever way to get them into Universal Import, but LibraryThing Import is either paralyzingly slow, or broken, at the moment.
Of course, you can't actually borrow the books in our library (unless you're at NRC CISTI), so it's unclear how much public good we're providing. I do plan to write some reviews - perhaps we're a node in an EA, SOA etc. book club?
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