This morning I was browsing through my routed journals and found an interesting article in Library Hotline (May 21st issue). It announced that Danbury Library in Connecticut is now using LibraryThing to tag items and offer user reviews and book recommendations through their catalog. So, I went to LibraryThing to find out more. Here's the link to their Thingology blog entry about it.This is all part of a new service offered by LibraryThing called LibraryThing for Libraries. It embraces the concepts of social networks making your opac more user friendly and interactive. The hope is that all automation vendors will wise up and start offering some of these features in our online catalogs. But, until then... LibraryThing is offering some pretty cool options for a nominal fee. So, you might want to check it out!
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