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Having cataloging skills on your resume is not a black mark that forever relegates you to the dark room in the basement. And as art libraries make their rapid attempts to digitize collections, they need metadata experts. In the competitive world of art library job hunting (where many libraries are consolidating their resources), every library still needs a cataloger. I wish there were a wider-and better-understanding of cataloging overall in the library world, but especially in art libraries. Cataloging, for me, is none of those things. I still don’t like being isolated in an office. I still don’t like staring at a computer for 8 hours. And, it’s completely changed how I feel about cataloging. It is an incredibly fun, challenging, and exciting job (it would have to be to motivate me, a non-morning person, to get up at 5:30am). At this point, I am considering alternative book cataloguing apps.I now work as the primary cataloger (among other things) for an art museum library, and I love it. Some of the books I listed in the basic version also are not showing up in the overall list, although when I tried to relist them, a message appeared saying the books were already included, although they could not be seen in the master list. needs to do a better job of creating a user friendly app and providing adequate support. In the end, they offered no help, just the suggestion to contact the app developer. That felt invasive and violating, and unnecessary. The books I catalogued are still sitting in the basic version, and when I click on “upgrade” it instructs me to buy the Pro version for $4.99, which I already did! I even phoned Apple’s support line, and they insisted on remotely accessing my laptop, even though the app was only on my iPad. I have tried syncing the data, tried importing, tried to contact the developer - no phone number-tried You Tube, searching for a how-to video, all to no avail.
#LIBRARIAN PRO VS DELICIOUS LIBRARY UPGRADE#
I expected that the upgrade would be seamless, incorporating the previously cataloged books into the Pro version with its larger capacity. I spent many hours over the past few days scanning ISBN numbers and manually inputting book data into the basic version.
#LIBRARIAN PRO VS DELICIOUS LIBRARY HOW TO#
When upgrading from BookBuddy to BookBuddy Pro there is little to no guidance on how to integrate the basic and upgraded versions of this app. No option to insert user's own values to field values, for example, the default status for a new book cannot be set to be a value not included among the three offeredĪll in all, the best available, BUT it has to be more flexible to be worth the $4.99 developer charges for unlimited-entries version. No option to rearrange layout of book info page No option to customise fields, that is, to allow users to create their own book info fields, such as: Foreword, Preface, Print Run Total, Print Run Number, Signed, etc Good selection of developer-created fields that can be added to book info pageįrom within app Support tab takes you to static web site page describing features of one or several apps, it isn't clear, and to a Contact page with email form. Structure is the best this reviewer has found in library apps for iOSĭesign is easily navigable and logical, clean, uncluttered, very friendly