Andy Naselli has written a very helpful article for Reformation 21 on organizing one’s theological library in zotero, a program I have admittedly not used to the potential Andy shows it has. Here’s a video where he keenly demonstrates the (free) program’s usefulness.
For those of you who use librarything, thanks to a fellow named Kevin Godby, you can export your cataloged books to BibTex and then into zotero using this website. Once you’ve downloaded the file, simply go to zotero actions icon, select im
port, the file you just downloaded, and zotero will do the rest. You will have some clean-up and tagging to do, but it is quick and dirty way to get your books already cataloged on librarything into zotero.
By the way, here’s a link to my zotero profile page.
Chris Ames said:
Aha! Thanks, Ryan! Very helpful.
Chris Ames said:
OK, I tried it and it made rather a mess of things. There is much work to be done. I would suggest it only after you have carefully groomed your LibraryThing entries, which I had only partially done. It will be valuable once I get it square, but right now it’s a pig’s buffet.
Ryan Martin said:
Sorry for the mess. You should be able to delete the entire imported folder from Zotero if you like.
I do wish some of my tags from LibraryThing would have come through, but, still, having all 1300+ books come through was a good thing!
LMark said:
Zotero is about to release a standalone version that will work on its own or integrate into a variety of browsers. I have done all my research in it for the past three years. It has matured well and is underwritten by the likes of the Carnegie-Mellon foundation. I expect its interoperability with Openoffice and Word to continue improving.
Export from your current bib manager, then use JabRef to snarf it up. From JabRef you can manage to get it into Zotero, I am pretty certain.
Chris Ames, come see me, maybe I can help you.
LMark
Ross said:
Thank you!