Library Thing
I created a Library Thing account a while back and entered a few of my JK Rowling and Madeline L’Engle books. I have LOTS of books. This takes a while to enter and I just haven’t found the time to do that yet. I do hope to catalog our entire home library one of these days. We do have about 10 book cases full of books in our house. 
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dbmatt56
I attended a conference summer of 2008 where the main speaker for our conference was the creator of Library Thing — Tim Spalding. He was a GREAT speaker and showed us lots of wonderful ‘libraries’ on Library Thing.
I think this could be a great place to recommend patrons who want to keep up with books they have read — if they are at least a little bit computer savvy.
I think Library Thing ‘could’ be used to catalog collections that are not in Sirsi (or there any?) or create a Maryland ‘library’ with the Gold Star collection for patrons to browse.
I’d love to have the Kuethe Library collection catalog somewhere. Library Thing might be the place to do that.
Tags: book_lists, Library_Thing
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December 19, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I have trouble keeping up with my GoodReads account. I see my GoodReads friends updating theirs constantly, but somehow, I never get around to it. I also limit it to my absolutely favorite books. On the other hand, my husband is cataloging our entire houseful of books in LibraryThing. Is taking over a year!