After a couple of days (and a late night) of entering over 700 ISBN numbers, ISDSI’s library collection is online!

We’ve been wanting to do this for a long time to make our library more accesible for students, instructors, researchers, NGO workers and community members in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Southeast Asia more generally.  We’ve invested a lot of money in getting good quality books and reference materials, and hope that this will make it easier for folks to search our holdings, see what we have, and be able to borrow books for thier own studies, research or work in sustainability.

To jump to our collection, go to http://www.librarything.com/catalog/isdsi.  You can also go to our Resources page where you can click on the right sidebar to get to the list.

Once at the list, you can browse by collection, or show all collections to sort and sift through the books.  There is also an excellent search function – so if you know what you are looking for you can see if we have it.

If you’re in Chiang Mai and looking for good books on ecology, agriculture, sustainability and other topics, feel free to stop by! Our library is available most days from 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday.

Special thanks to the folks at LibraryThing for providing the software and community of other users!  If you have a small (or large) collection of books, it is a great way to manage it online (sort of like Gmail for books…).