Does Anyone Know Of A Good Free Inventory Program For A Small One Room Office Library?

[Reade]

I'm currently taking inventory of our small office library. My boss wants to be able to search in a computer program for things like book title or author and the program tell him which shelf to find it on. Anyone know of a free program I can download to do this?

[lazzaro72]

  LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. LibraryThing was originally intended for the personal collections of individuals, couples and families. But for-profit organizations can catalog up to 100 books for free($30/year to 500 books, $50/year to 5,000 books). LibraryThing is a full-powered cataloging application, searching the Library of Congress, all five national Amazon sites, and more than 80 world libraries. You can edit your information, search and sort it, "tag" books with your own subjects(or with a shelf number, for example), or use the Library of Congress and Dewey systems to organize your collection. Here's a link to the "Can organizations Join?" page: http://www.librarything.com/organizations.php   Or, for a one-time investment, here's a site offering low-cost software for cataloging your collection: Readerware.com http://www.readerware.com/  According to the Readerware overview page, "Readerware can search the internet and automatically catalog the books, music and videos you own. Just scan the barcode or enter the ISBN/UPC. There is no simpler way of cataloging your library. It eliminates the chore of manual data entry." The standard edition(the base product for a single user costs a modest $40.