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:
- 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.
- Post a comment to this blog with a link to your blog post so we know you've completed Thing #11.
33 comments:
http://gregs23.blogspot.com/2008/11/discovery-exercise-11.html
#11 Pottery Barn
http://jaxscots.blogspot.com/2008/11/library-thing.html
http://jaxcat.blogspot.com/2008/11/library-thing-11-httpwww.html
Just curious if anyone knows why some of the hyperlinks I post in my blog show up as hyperlinks and others have to be copied and pasted in the google address slot to take me somewhere. Everyone is copied as an active hyperlink then copied to the blog, but they do not all post as active hyperlinks. Do I need to edit the HTML to activate it?
http://www.librarything.com/home/Jackie_Smith86
http://jaxscots.blogspot.com/2008/11/library-thing.html
Okay, I found the tool for creating a hyperlink on the blog. Still not sure why some links work when I paste them in and others don't, but at least I don't have to edit the HTML which I know also know how to do>
kdeas (kdeas@coj.net)
Library Thing:
http://kadsblogger.blogspot.com/2008/11/library-thing-11.html
This is the link to my library. If you go to blog, its called Ariel's Library. www.librarything.com/catalog/roddyk
No comment.
http://jpl-part-timer.blogspot.com/2008/11/librarything-jpl-20-11.html
Here's the link to by blog: http://reflections-learner-learner.blogspot.com/2008/11/thing-about-library-thing-week-5-11.html
I've been a member of Library Thing for almost two years, so this was fun for me. Listen to me ooze poetic over the whole LibraryThing deal at:
http://cornerdemon.blogspot.com/2008/11/11-i-love-library-thing.html
Thing 11....this one was great! I posted 5 titles by 1 of my favorite authors "Catherine Coulter" to Librarything.com
http://thisandthat-lucky7blogspot.com
http://pluto-raechel.blogspot.com/
library thing completed...
Thoughts about Library Thing:
A Few Books I've Read
This made me finally sign up on Library Thing. Another site that I've thought about joining is shelfari, which seems pretty cool and is the same thing. By the way, Library Thing has a local section allowing users to advertise book related events. I noticed when I sign up WST a few weeks ago that some other JPL libraries were in there already. I'm advertising our programs on Library Thing.
http://modernsackbut.blogspot.com/2008/11/library-t.html
http://www.librarything.com/venue/34951/West-Regional-Branch-Library
my library thing
#11 I enjoy that site very much. Although I could not get the link thing to work I will use the site again.http://www.fromkatiesshoes.blogspot.com/
I finished #11 The LibraryThing. Enjoyed it.
http://www.librarything.com/home/LOVEX6
http://msgirardeauandlibrary20.blogspot.com/
#11 completed -
http://nicolesblogjpl.blogspot.com/2008/11/11-librarything.html
Now that I have completed #11, the Library Link, I hope folks will see I have wonderful taste in books.
http://calwishart.blogspot.com/
jcurry (curryj@coj.net)
Here's my link!
http://butterflies-jackie.blogspot.com/2008/12/library-things.html
shoot!
Well this was from the 18th.
http://jplstuff.blogspot.com/2008/11/10-library-thing.html
Books and more books!
My favorite so far.
http://lionsleepstonight.blogspot.com/2008/12/ex11-library-thing.html
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/featheronthepath
#11
Art of Letters
My Thing About Library Thing can be found at http://sarthurgeiger.blogspot.com/2008/12/11-thing-about-library-thing.html
I included a link to my on line catalog.
http://daniellealuminum.blogspot.com/2009/02/librarything.html
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/TerryWelch
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