Wednesday, January 9
Seventeen Dollars and Thirty Cents!!
Category: Home and Schooling
For those of you who are on top of your library books and have gloriously avoided fines, you may already know about the Library Elf. For those of you like me, who are really neglectful about renewing your heaps of library books and get denied access (like I did) to future holds until their fines (which were $17.30 today!) are paid IN PERSON (ugh! an hour drive!), you may want to check this out.
http://www.libraryelf.com/
Your Personal Email Library Reminder Service
Why have I never heard of this before?? I'll tell you why - because I never got denied access to place holds for books before and wouldn't have thought I needed it! The rejection was horrid! 
After giving the Library Elf permission to nag me about my overdue books, I received an email from The Homeschool Mom informing me of their "Site of the Week": http://www.gurulib.com . GuruLib is an online home library catalog system. So I took a peek over there given my lack of library organization skills. It looks pretty cool! I'll have to give you an update at a much later time when I've actually had enough free time to do this with our current library of books, CDs, DVDs, etc.
Comments
Wednesday, January 9 - oh my!
Posted by PeakmoreAcademy
oh lady, i'm so sorry you're being fined. ugh.
glad you learned about library elf. just wish I would've thought to tell you about it earlier! I've been using it for quite some time now. Heck, i'm pretty sure i heard about it last year on the Loose Threads list.
well anyway, be sure to sign up ALL your library cards! (i did mine and DD's) it is a LIFESAVER, errr... i mean MONEY saver!!
hugs,
Me
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Saturday, January 19 - At Least I'm Not the Only One!
Posted by ichuzchrist
We are very bad about not getting our library books back to the library. I guess being 1 hour away doesn't help you too much. Our library is less than 5 miles from home. I have no excuse except that I'm very forgetful. Usually it's because of DVDs or VCR tapes, not books, though.
Thanks for the heads-up on the GuruLib. I'm going over there now and checking it out!
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Saturday, January 19 - Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
Posted by ichuzchrist
I absolutely LOVE GuruLib! I was using something similar, but this is much better. I like the way it looks, and it also allows unlimited books. You are my new very best friend!
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Monday, February 18 - library fines
Posted by counterculturalmom
Hi Debra,
We just paid $25 for a lost book....yuck. I didn't want to spend the money to buy that particular book for Tapestry, but I ended up buying it after all (for the library), plus paying a $10 restocking fee, and now we don't even have the book to show for it....just a renewal of our library privileges! I'm off to check out these two sites!
Molly
http://www.counterculturalmom.blogspot.com
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