Without claiming to be a professional cataloging tool, Librarian Pro offers you much more than an average database to help you keep track of your movies, books, or CDs. It offers you the same level of granularity you may find in some professional catalogs, while saving you the trouble of dealing with the jargon of the library world. Besides, you can load your own records with data taken directly from Amazon’s huge database.
Most probably, you will never see Librarian Pro being used in your local library service, but it certainly offers much more than what most of us need to keep our home collections organized. The number of fields available varies for each type of material, but it is never lower than fifty. Together with the more obvious and common fields, Librarian Pro offers you the possibility of storing more specific and detailed information about each item, such as the mixer, the tracks, and the prizes of a particular musical work, or the reading level, the illustrator, and the reviews of a certain book.
If you buy your books, CDs, and DVDs through the Internet, this is the tool you were looking for. It connects directly with any Amazon site in the world, and allows you to search and download all the data available for the selected item, saving you a lot of time and effort. This information can be refreshed and reloaded with just one click, keeping your records updated at all times. If you are also an Amazon buyer, you can even synchronize Librarian Pro with your shopping cart.
The program also includes a specific set of fields to store information about the buying and selling of any item in your collection - the “Ownership” section. Here you can find information on the sale status, the buyer, the seller, the price and currency, the transaction ID, or the sale URL. In this same section you will find information about who borrowed this item and when. As for borrowers, you can create your own list of friends with just a few clicks, and even add an image for each of them.
Finally, Librarian Pro includes an Import/Export utility that will allow you to send all your data to your iPod, a Data Guardian database, to a number of text formats (CSV, text with line breaks), or to an HTML file. You can decide which materials, items, or fields will be exported, and on what conditions. The resulting output can then be used for importing data into your system, as well as from other resources, such as Amazon, Delicious Library 2, Bookpedia, CDpedia, or DVDpedia.
v3.0 [Sep 7, 2013]
- Crash importing DL2 database.
- Use custom fields in list view.
- Allow downloading item images in bulk in the main window.
- Items with really long titles should crop their title text on top of their artwork.
- Dramatic improvements for Gallery view mode and caching pre-rendered images to disk.
- Modification: Dramatic enhancements to the web cam barcode scanner.
- Bug Fix: Selection rect for borrower icons in Gallery mode.
- Bug Fix: Shows warning when hiding a static/special smart collection.
- Bug Fix: Fixed double contextual menu separators from showing twice in a row when clicking the cog in the main window when having the Borrowers collection selected.
- Bug Fix: Seems to warn that the library has been modified since last save outside the app.
- Bug Fix: Option to NOT show the item window and still search the web for items in the Inventory Manager works again.
- Bug Fix: Drop down icon in the Inventory Manager search field now shows again.
- Bug Fix: Changing list size in Gallery View mode no longer draws incorrect graphic sizes.
- Bug Fix: Inventory Manager now attempts to find items by UPC, EAN or ISBN first (instead of title) when first opening up the Web Finder browser.
