Thing 14. LibraryThing

1. Take the LibraryThing tour and learn more.
-- Oh yes, this is cool! What's not to like? It's a widget for book lovers.

How popular were your books? Did you find any discussions about your favorites?

Blog Prompts

• How can you use LibraryThing for your library?
  

It could be used to make lists of "new" books and that info could be put on the library's web site.

• How else do you share booklists, etc. with library patrons? Would LibraryThing offer an alternative?

We don't have anything for the patrons other than the Book List. It would be useful to put our lists in LibThing and have patrons vote on them.

Resources

• About LibraryThing
• Keep up with LibraryThing blog
• Thingology blog “LibraryThing's ideas blog, on the philosophy and methods of tags, libraries and such not.”
• How libraries are using LibraryThing
• LibraryThing also has group forum for librarians

Note: It may help to set-up an account before you browse these links. It takes seconds and will eliminate the "highload" error message you may get when trying to browse without an account.