I’m starting a small lending library for my job (around 150 books) and am trying to find the right software solution to manage it. I will be mostly bringing books to people at events, etc, but I would like to have a way to catalog the titles and make that accessible online so people can browse available titles and let me know what books they would like to check out.
Any ideas? I’m guessing I could make a google doc work, but there has to be a more elegant solution, right?
Airtable would be a good choice. Though, with only 150 books you could just put up a web page listing the title/author of each book and whether it was available or not.
There’s also an app called Delicious Library that allows you to track books (and other physical items). It also has a lending feature. You can also generate an online catalog using your Dropbox account so people can view your books online.
Love how you can add books by scanning the barcode with your laptop’s camera or with the companion app. Uses only Amazon as reference for books. Not reliable if you plan to use it for your record collection.