DVDS

New to Library Thing and still trying to find my way around. Can I catalog DVDs and if so where do I find the templates?
Thank You.

Most movies can be added by scanning the barcode. Or you can do it manually. Please put the date the movie was made after the title in your record in square brackets. This distinguishes it from any books that might be its source material.

Not sure what you mean by templates though.

If you are looking for a way to easily record the Director and actors and so on, I am afraid that there is no special place for these - you can add them as other authors eventually.

LT allows you to add whatever you want but its special fields are geared towards books.

Actually you do now have 'Director' in the list of options for role when you add a name in the author field. I think it is the only movie related role but you can type in any other role you want, set designer, lighting director, script writer, etc. Many people grumble about adding cast names: if you, as some folk do, put all the cast down as other authors, the field gets very cluttered - I hate it. My choice is to list the cast in the Comments field.

I think you will find some variation in who users call the author of a film. Thinking along the lines of 'auteur' I go for the director but others use the screen writer or even the author of the book on which the film is based. Not keen on the latter because of combination issues.

As >2 Bookmarque: wrote, it is a very good idea to make it absolutely clear that you have entered a DVD - I put DVD in square brackets after the title - I am not sure that the date of the movie is quite obvious enough. I think some don't like the use of square brackets and prefer curly. I don't remember what the problem is supposed to be.

All in all LT works pretty well as a DVD cataloguing site but you have to enter most data manually so someone deep into the movie data set might prefer to go elsewhere.

>4 abbottthomas:

I put DVD in square brackets after the title - I am not sure that the date of the movie is quite obvious enough.

I absolutely agree. It's definitely not obvious if there have been a)books, b)films, c) television series, d) multiple versions of a, b, or c. (Yes, there's a "novelization" of one of the movie versions of Little Women.) Speaking of Little Women, just using a date definitely won't help there: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/little-women-adaptations/#

Since format is not a signifier of a work, I prefer to name it the more generic ‘film’ as I catalog movies and series I watch on streaming services.

Another example of how dvds are catalogued on LT: I put "video" in curly brackets beside the title. That's because the phrase "film" felt inappropriate for discs. The format (dvd) goes in as a tag.