{"id":2572,"date":"2008-11-18T14:17:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T18:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2008-11-18T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T18:17:23","slug":"cataloging-flash-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/cataloging-flash-mob.html","title":{"rendered":"Cataloging Flash Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Beverly, Massachusetts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/groupshot-728793.jpg\">a mob of 20 LibraryThing enthusiasts<\/a> cataloged the entire collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjohnsbeverlyfarms.org\/\">St. John&#8217;s church library<\/a>, as well as the rector&#8217;s book collection, consisting of over 2,000 books (averaging 100 books per person).<\/p>\n<p>Akin to an Amish barn-raising, the idea was to get a group together and get the job done in one day.<\/p>\n<p>found via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/first-ever-catalog-flash-mob.php\">LibraryThing blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>* disclaimer:\u00a0 I find this interesting on its own, but as I am in a middle of a months-long group project to move my church&#8217;s catalog to a different ILS (as well as getting them an OPAC) I can only feel jealous about the speed at which this was accomplished.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Beverly, Massachusetts a mob of 20 LibraryThing enthusiasts cataloged the entire collection of St. John&#8217;s church library, as well as the rector&#8217;s book collection, consisting of over 2,000 books (averaging 100 books per person). Akin to an Amish barn-raising, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/cataloging-flash-mob.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2922,2936,2943,2944,2953],"tags":[4199,5341,3878,3221,5367,4759,4085],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cataloging","category-groups","category-libraries","category-library-20","category-opac","tag-beverly","tag-cataloging","tag-librarything","tag-massachusetts","tag-opac","tag-rector","tag-st-johns-church-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}