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"Product Pipeline.(LibraryThing)(aNobii )(GuruLib )(Website list)."netConnect0.2007(Jan 15, 2007):14.InfoTrac OneFile.Thomson Gale.Boise State Univ/ Albertsons Lib.27 Feb. 2007
<http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=
T003&prodId=ITOF&docId=A157635181&source=gale&srcprod=ITOF&userGroupName=
bois91825&version=1.0>.
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ysk7rl
Melissa L. Rethlefsen looks at book-sharing sites and iPod reference content and what they mean to librarians
Librarians have embraced LibraryThing [see "Chief Thingamabrarian," LJ 1/07, p. 40], whether as a catalog for their personal collections, a collection development tool, an adornment to fancy up a blog or library web site, or even as a solid substitute for a traditional library catalog. The Librarians Who LibraryThing group has nearly 1500 members. LibraryThing has a number of up-and-coming competitors, including aNobii , Listal , AllConsuming , Shelfari , GuruLib , Squirl , and others.
LibraryThing LibraryThing is seen to be the most powerful of the book-sharing sites, which have also been called social media, social cataloging, social libraries, and content communities. It incorporates dozens of data sources to provide rich detail for its book records like MARC data, including Library of Congress (LC) subject headings (LCSH) and call numbers and author images.
Importing and exporting functionality is available for users wanting to backup their data or use multiple services. You can import data from Vox (a newer social networking site from Six Apart that combines blogging and networking with book, video, and photo sharing and cataloging) or from practically any other web site or file (Delicious Library , Listal , Amazon's wish lists, or even a spreadsheet) that has ISBN data.
Using LibraryThing is a snap Creating an account takes a few seconds at most since it only requires a user name and password--unusually simple for a sign-up process. To get started, search by title, author, or ISBN in Amazon, LC, or one of 60 other catalogs; select the appropriate book from the results and then it's part of your collection. If you are lucky enough to have a barcode scanner (you can buy a CueCat scanner from LibraryThing for $15), entering books is even easier. There is also a bookmarklet available for adding books directly from Amazon.
For each book, add your own tags (keywords), a personal review, ratings, and more. Your collection displays via a bookshelf-type feature where you can see all your book jackets or a browsable list that looks much like a library catalog.
LibraryThing is a highly social service: find similar users, join groups, subscribe to watch lists or RSS feeds of your favorite LibraryThing catalogers, discuss books, and comment on others' collections. To find book recommendations, browse through the popular tag cloud, search, or use the special recommendations feature, which helps find books either tagged similarly to the book(s) you've entered in your collection or that people with similar collections own or uses "special sauce" (its proprietary algorithm).
LibraryThing and Amazon book recommendations are listed for each title when available, giving you even more ways to find that next book to read or to buy for the library's collection. In addition to personal and book-specific tag clouds and data, LibraryThing has a fun Zeitgeist page with statistics like most highly and poorly rated authors; largest collections; most popular authors, books, and tags; and the largest groups (Librarians Who LibraryThing is overwhelmingly the largest group). Additional features include blog widgets (book or tag displays with a number of options and a collection search), several application program interfaces (APIs), and the easy linking tool. The APIs are especially notable as they allow users to find all ISBNs associated with a particular title or ISBN, similar to OCLC's xISBN service. A lifetime account is $25, or free for 200 books or less.
...For librarians: Along with cataloging and sharing our personal book collections, LibraryThing and its competitors offer a variety of tools to the professional librarian and to libraries. Small nonprofits like church libraries are already making use of LibraryThing to organize their collections (see www.librarything.com/profile.php?view=fumcp). For-profit institutions can develop LibraryThing collections for $50/year. Other libraries are using LibraryThing to store lists of book reviews or recommended books (www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view= pmlyayakkers), for collection development purposes, or to find book recommendations for patrons. These tools hold great promise since there are linked reviews, ratings, and automated recommendations on a collection and by book basis.
Libraries are already thinking of ways to integrate LibraryThing into their OPACs and other services. Christopher Kupec of the Chelmsford Public Library, MA, is planning to include barcodes on library checkout receipts so patrons can easily add their read books to LibraryThing or other personal library catalogs. Other library mashups are on the horizon; Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing, recently solicited libraries that use Innovative Interfaces to work with LibraryThing to mashup their OPACs. Libraries have been experimenting with including LibraryThing recommendations and more in their OPACs already.
Other libraries still are using the blog widgets or RSS feeds from these services to add new book lists and recommended reading to their library web sites (see the Shenandoah Public Library web site, www.shenandoah.lib.ia.us), and many librarian blogs use the blog widgets to advertise their personal collections.
Blog comparing these: http://tinyurl.com/yl7g5e
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LibraryThing as recommendations in Abebooks:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06260598040073628820
In NYT Business section:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/business/yourmoney/04novel.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
or, http://tinyurl.com/3dmfzy
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Thingamabrarian - LJ 1/2007
Interview with Tim Spading.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6403633.html
Links:
<http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=
T003&prodId=ITOF&docId=A157635181&source=gale&srcprod=ITOF&userGroupName=
bois91825&version=1.0>.
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ysk7rl
Melissa L. Rethlefsen looks at book-sharing sites and iPod reference content and what they mean to librarians
Librarians have embraced LibraryThing [see "Chief Thingamabrarian," LJ 1/07, p. 40], whether as a catalog for their personal collections, a collection development tool, an adornment to fancy up a blog or library web site, or even as a solid substitute for a traditional library catalog. The Librarians Who LibraryThing group has nearly 1500 members. LibraryThing has a number of up-and-coming competitors, including aNobii , Listal , AllConsuming , Shelfari , GuruLib , Squirl , and others.
LibraryThing LibraryThing is seen to be the most powerful of the book-sharing sites, which have also been called social media, social cataloging, social libraries, and content communities. It incorporates dozens of data sources to provide rich detail for its book records like MARC data, including Library of Congress (LC) subject headings (LCSH) and call numbers and author images.
Importing and exporting functionality is available for users wanting to backup their data or use multiple services. You can import data from Vox (a newer social networking site from Six Apart that combines blogging and networking with book, video, and photo sharing and cataloging) or from practically any other web site or file (Delicious Library , Listal , Amazon's wish lists, or even a spreadsheet) that has ISBN data.
Using LibraryThing is a snap Creating an account takes a few seconds at most since it only requires a user name and password--unusually simple for a sign-up process. To get started, search by title, author, or ISBN in Amazon, LC, or one of 60 other catalogs; select the appropriate book from the results and then it's part of your collection. If you are lucky enough to have a barcode scanner (you can buy a CueCat scanner from LibraryThing for $15), entering books is even easier. There is also a bookmarklet available for adding books directly from Amazon.
For each book, add your own tags (keywords), a personal review, ratings, and more. Your collection displays via a bookshelf-type feature where you can see all your book jackets or a browsable list that looks much like a library catalog.
LibraryThing is a highly social service: find similar users, join groups, subscribe to watch lists or RSS feeds of your favorite LibraryThing catalogers, discuss books, and comment on others' collections. To find book recommendations, browse through the popular tag cloud, search, or use the special recommendations feature, which helps find books either tagged similarly to the book(s) you've entered in your collection or that people with similar collections own or uses "special sauce" (its proprietary algorithm).
LibraryThing and Amazon book recommendations are listed for each title when available, giving you even more ways to find that next book to read or to buy for the library's collection. In addition to personal and book-specific tag clouds and data, LibraryThing has a fun Zeitgeist page with statistics like most highly and poorly rated authors; largest collections; most popular authors, books, and tags; and the largest groups (Librarians Who LibraryThing is overwhelmingly the largest group). Additional features include blog widgets (book or tag displays with a number of options and a collection search), several application program interfaces (APIs), and the easy linking tool. The APIs are especially notable as they allow users to find all ISBNs associated with a particular title or ISBN, similar to OCLC's xISBN service. A lifetime account is $25, or free for 200 books or less.
...For librarians: Along with cataloging and sharing our personal book collections, LibraryThing and its competitors offer a variety of tools to the professional librarian and to libraries. Small nonprofits like church libraries are already making use of LibraryThing to organize their collections (see www.librarything.com/profile.php?view=fumcp). For-profit institutions can develop LibraryThing collections for $50/year. Other libraries are using LibraryThing to store lists of book reviews or recommended books (www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view= pmlyayakkers), for collection development purposes, or to find book recommendations for patrons. These tools hold great promise since there are linked reviews, ratings, and automated recommendations on a collection and by book basis.
Libraries are already thinking of ways to integrate LibraryThing into their OPACs and other services. Christopher Kupec of the Chelmsford Public Library, MA, is planning to include barcodes on library checkout receipts so patrons can easily add their read books to LibraryThing or other personal library catalogs. Other library mashups are on the horizon; Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing, recently solicited libraries that use Innovative Interfaces to work with LibraryThing to mashup their OPACs. Libraries have been experimenting with including LibraryThing recommendations and more in their OPACs already.
Other libraries still are using the blog widgets or RSS feeds from these services to add new book lists and recommended reading to their library web sites (see the Shenandoah Public Library web site, www.shenandoah.lib.ia.us), and many librarian blogs use the blog widgets to advertise their personal collections.
Blog comparing these: http://tinyurl.com/yl7g5e
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LibraryThing as recommendations in Abebooks:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06260598040073628820
In NYT Business section:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/business/yourmoney/04novel.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
or, http://tinyurl.com/3dmfzy
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Thingamabrarian - LJ 1/2007
Interview with Tim Spading.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6403633.html
Links:
- Anne Frank diary tag cloud
www.librarything.com/work/5116 - Libraries Using LibraryThing
www.librarything.com/blog/2006/09/how-libraries-are-using-librarything.php - Library Thing-ology blog
www.librarything.com/thingology - Library Thing UnSuggester
www.librarything.com/unsuggester/7479 - On Millennium OPACs
librarything.com/thingology/2006/09/put-librarything-in-your-opac.php - “Philosophy” of tag combining
www.librarything.com/blog/2005/12/combining-tags-heresy.php - Podcast with LibraryThing
onebiglibrary.net/geeks/episode/003-the-thing-you-do - U Penn Tags
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