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Are you a book lover or a 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 catalogue 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 to display titles that are in your catalogue or install a LT Search box on your blog.
So why not join the ranks and create your own library online. With over 390,000 registered users and over 25 million catalogued books, you're bound to discover something new.
(By the way: LibraryThing also has group forum for librarians).
Discovery Resources:
Are you a book lover or a 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 catalogue 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 to display titles that are in your catalogue or install a LT Search box on your blog.So why not join the ranks and create your own library online. With over 390,000 registered users and over 25 million catalogued books, you're bound to discover something new.
(By the way: LibraryThing also has group forum for librarians).
Discovery Resources:
- About LibraryThing
- Library Thing tour
- LibraryThing blog (updates & news)
Discovery Exercise:
- Take a look around LibraryThing and create an account.
- Add a least 5 books to your library.
- Blog about your findings and be sure to link to your LibraryThing catalog. To do this:
- Go to "Your Profile" in LibraryThing.
- Click on "Blog Widgets" which you can find near the top right hand corner of the page.
- Under "Preset Widgets", set up the display the way you want it (it shows you how it looks on the right side of the page).
- Click on "make it!"
- Copy the html code on the right (highlight the html, right click, and "copy")
- Go to your blog.
- Create a new entry
- Paste in the HTML
- Add some comments if you wish, then Publish to the blog.
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