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#11 A thing about LibraryThing

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Are you book lover or cataloger at heart? Or do you enjoy finding lost and forgotten gems on the shelf to read? Then LibraryThing may be just the tool for you. Developed for booklovers, this online tool not only allows you to easily create an online catalog of your own it also connects you to other people who have similar libraries and reading tastes. Add a book to your catalog by just entering the title -- It’s so easy that you don’t even need MARC record training to do it – or connect with other users through your similar reading tastes. There are lots of ways to use LibraryThing. You can even view your books on a virtual shelf, add a widget (see sidebar for sample) to display titles that are in your catalog or install a LT Search box on your blog.

So why not join the ranks and create your own library online. With over 65,000 registered (BTW: LibraryThing also has group forum for librarians users and over 4.7 million cataloged books, you're bound to discover something new.


Discovery Resources:


Discovery Exercise:

  1. Take a look around LibraryThing and create an account.
  2. Add a least 5 books to your library.
  3. Blog about your findings and be sure to link to your LibraryThing catalog.


PS: Happy 1st Birthday LibraryThing !!! (August 28th)

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# Sunday, September 03, 2006 . Posted by HeleneB

7 Comments:

  • I'm in love!!! I searched last year for a freeware card catalog software to use for my classroom library. I never found a really effective one. Although this isn't exactly what LibraryThing is for...I've been cheating. My classroom librarians use the tag field and use only "in" or "out" and the student ID # as tags to track our titles!

    By Blogger Jen, at 4:33 PM  

  • I was hopeing that this would be answer to keeping track of books I've read. But can't get it link to my blog.
    Peter

    By Blogger LibraryDoggies, at 8:25 PM  

  • You put a link on your website/blog to http://www.librarything.com/catalog/username
    where username is the one you use in librarything

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:58 AM  

  • I like this "Library Thing". It will be useful to remember the books in my own collection.

    By Blogger anona-mouse, at 8:17 PM  

  • I've heard a lot about Library Thing and am now just discovering it.

    By Blogger Roslin Thompson, at 3:51 PM  

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    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:23 AM  

  • I recently set up an account with LibraryThing. As an English major and a future library this is more than just a website, it is a tool to be able to network with other academics.

    By Anonymous cochman, at 9:24 AM  

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