Here’s an idea that Karen Burns of SWILSA just pointed me to. Somehow I’d not thought of this myself. I love this idea and will be posting links to her libraries that get it up and running.
“I’m sure this is old hat to you but I’ve just stumbled onto the idea of using the RSS feed for recently added titles on LibraryThing to put a library’s new titles on their website. (I kind of like Feedroll’s javascript generator…) Do you know of any libraries that are doing this already? (I’ve got one here in SW Iowa ready to dive into it, and I’m sure I’ll have a second and maybe a third and fourth by the end of the day…)”
UPDATE: Karen would like me to make it clear that she got the idea elsewhere.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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2 Replies to “Using LibraryThing in your library”
I’ve been doing that here at the Lunar and Planetary Institue. Problem is so much of our material is original cataloging and there are no nice covers.
Oh well, it is easy and cheap. So I do it for what works.
I’d been thinking of this since I heard of LibraryThing. Glad to see someone’s using it creatively!
I’ve been doing that here at the Lunar and Planetary Institue. Problem is so much of our material is original cataloging and there are no nice covers.
Oh well, it is easy and cheap. So I do it for what works.
I’d been thinking of this since I heard of LibraryThing. Glad to see someone’s using it creatively!