2500 cards, 2500 pockets, 5000 pieces sticky tape, tubs&tubs of glue later ...

We had a professional theological librarian visit us earlier in the year and make some recommendations for IMS. One was to switch to a card borrowing service, and another to a professional library software so we could create the cards.

One step at a time ...  so I worked out how to use our current Excel list to creat the 2500 cards we needed using MailMerge.

I went into the cardboard sellers near the big market in town (horrendous parking) and got 2500 blue strips cut for making the pockets (she threw in a few extra) and large white cards for printing off 8 book cards per page.

For the last few weeks my day guard, IMS's secretary, a former student, the dean and his wife -- all have been cutting out white book cards and blue pockets, folding and sticking them together ... and we've had a few sessions of sticking in the pockets and inserting the cards in the library.

Our last session is tomorrow, by when I hope we will have half the books completed. They will have to finish the rest in my absence since I'm not supposed to drive close to leaving, and I'll be leaving for almost 2 months!  I'm back the weekend before Orientation starts in January.