Friends

I am very excited to say that we were invited to join the Quaker Meeting Libraries Group on LibraryThing! I hope that we will be able to share practices as well as form a community for Quaker readers around the world. Right now, 2 of the libraries in the group are in Australia; the rest are in the U.S.

I haven’t seen Mary in a few weeks because I was on vacation two weeks ago, and she was away last week, but I hope to see her this week and figure out if we will indeed be upgrading our account so we can put our whole library on LibraryThing.

In other (non-)news, we are plugging away at getting all of the books in the Surpass catalog; the volunteers have worked their way almost through the J’s! (Our classification system is A-J.) However, we had initially skipped over A’s (Quakerism) and B’s (Biographies) because of anticipated difficulty with copy-cataloging. So I have been working on the A’s, and I think the volunteers are ready to tackle the B’s.

I would love to see the catalog complete and visible on LibraryThing before I’m done, except… when am I done? Clearly my field placement is long over, and I’m now another volunteer. I expressed to Mary my desire to keep working with the library, but I don’t know how that works, if I’m not a Friend. Of course, Friends are very welcoming, and it’s doubtful they would turn away someone who wants to help.

17 July 2008 (on site): 1:30pm-4:30pm
24 July 2008 (on site): 1:30pm-5:30pm
31 July 2008 (on site): 1:30pm-4:30pm
14 August 2008 (on site): 10:00pm-3:00pm