Monastery's catalog is now online

To make the monastery's library holdings more accessible, the full catalog is now available online. This will allow monks to look things up from desktop machines or mobile devices. The standalone catalog file currently in two monastery locations is no longer the fixed point for look ups. In addition to the obvious convenience to the community, the librarian located some 6,000 miles away can immediately update holdings as new materials are added to the collection or when weeded titles are removed. Earlier this month (March 2014), after working on reclassification of the Liturgical sub-collection, the monastic community welcomed him to an evening recreation. Among the topics of conversation were the diversity of the library's collection and some history on how some of the books were acquired. Along with that was mentioned an interesting cataloging practice, namely that books which authors personally signed were noted within the catalog records. Try out the catalog entering the keyword "signed". You may be impressed with what you discover there! Search the OPAC.