Early Days

We’ve started to gather momentum from the tentative beginning when we were meeting with one another over coffee and gathering information about the basic needs for the project, to now having some structure in place and a routine for the work taking shape. The building now has wifi, we have an OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) account, and Bruce Willms, retired Dean of the Metropolitan State University Library, has shown our crew of volunteers and interns the basics of cataloging. This week we uploaded our first record to WorldCat, which will allow the record for that book to be found through searches originating from anywhere in the world. We’re on the map! The shelves are steadily filling with books from the collection of David Montgomery, whom we’ll profile in a future post. Stay tuned…