The LibraryThing can help
 |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LibraryThing_Logo_medium.png |
If there is one Web 2.0 tool Librarians and Managers should consider, it has to be the 'LibraryThing' application. But, what is a LibraryThing? Basically, the LibraryThing online tool provides a wide variety of book titles to your doorstep. It is an easy way to find book titles and to keep track of your favourite online bookstores, e.g. Amazon. What is more, users can exchange book titles with each other. By exchanging information, social networking is also encouraged.
According to LibraryThing (2010), there are a few amazing features:
- Join the world’s largest book club.
- Catalog your books from Amazon, the Library of Congress and 690 other world libraries. Import from anywhere.
- Find people with eerily similar tastes.
- Find new books to read.
- Free Early
- Enter 200 books for free, as many as you like for $10 (year) or $25 (life).
- Available in many languages:
(others) (LibraryThing, 2010)
What does this mean for the Library? The LibraryThing tool assists library staff to create a blog roll, which could run from the Library's main webpage or blog. Users would be able to see what books other patrons are reading. What is more, people can read about the book, and see what rating (1-5 star) other readers gave. Reviews are good to fall back on. Librarians could easily see which books are best sellers and which ones are not that popular. LibraryThing also help Librarians to select the most up-to-date books for their users.
No comments:
Post a Comment