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Tellico for KDE might be a suitable solution. I use it extensively as a collection manager.

I have to remember who I loan them to.

You may not want to go to the trouble of entering all of your books into it, but I have just started using tellico to catalog my books and DVDs. So far, it's a pretty nice little program. It fetches most of the book info based on the ISBN, UPC, author, title, etc.

It's a lot like librarything, but unlike librarything you don't have to pay for it ever. It also does stuff that's not a book.

What you're interested in is that you can tell it details about loans, and it'll even tie in with the KDE calendar if you use that.

A webcam and a script is all you need apparently. Tellico has a barcode recognition part to scan in barcode via the webcam. Check it out, some discussions on the mailing list, see eg nabble and search for the barcode patch

Tried Telico or Treeline?

http://periapsis.org/tellico/
http://treeline.bellz.org/

I'm surprised I don't see tellico

http://www.periapsis.org/tellico/

you can enter isbn and it pulls summary, title, etc from Amazon (including picture).

You can then enter where it is located, who borrowed it, etc. Works for books, CDs, etc.

Wow, I had to dig down to score:1 to find a reference to Tellico. It always amazes me how few people have heard of this great software. It's been around for quite some time. It's very flexible. Maybe it's because it doesn't have "library" in its name?

It started out as book cataloguing software, but it will catalogue just about anything now, all within in a quite comfortable, and customizable, interface.

Tellico from http://www.periapsis.org/tellico/ is the best option that I found. Using it I started to catalog all my books [allowes you to fetch all the data from amazon/library of congress/etc] based on ISBN numbers, titles/etc. You can easily add/remove/edit fields for your collection, thus expanding based on the premade templates, which include everything from music, movies, books to coins.

The only thing I'd love more about it would be a windows version that could use the same databases.

http://www.periapsis.org/tellico/ I used it with my collection of about 1500 books. Now with version 1.03 it will use UPC codes. It can also be used for collections of cd's, dvd's, and other things. I'm happy with it. It works like a charm with my cue cat. For anyone needing to catalog books it is a good reason to investigate Linux.

Freshmeat listings for Tellico and Alexandria. I took a look at both of them a few versions ago and they were too massive for my needs (a few tens of books).

And no, I'm not the author! Just a very happy user.

Have a look at Tellico, it's for KDE 3. It totally rocks.

Tellico is an excellent solution. Easy to use, open format.

http://www.periapsis.org/tellico/

How does it compare to tellico ? I have been using this on my Linux box for sometime now and find it extremely useful for cataloging my books and movies. Tellico also offers integration with Amazon (for books) and IMDB (for movies), and best of all, its FREE!
(Not sure whether it costs to get Delicious Monster, not a Mac owner)