BiblioCommons is one of the newest mashups to enter into the mix. While their website doesn’t reveal much, a brief write-up in the Library Journal explains a little bit more about the BiblioCommons system. Similar to LibraryThing, it compiles all user reviews/tag (from all libraries that utilize BilbioCommons) but additionally allows people to create and [...]
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The Ultimate Mashup? BiblioCommons
Posted in Catalogues, Public Library on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Library What? A LibraryThing!
Posted in Catalogues, Public Library on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The time had come for me to investigate LibraryThing. Admittedly, although I’ve heard the name tossed around quite a bit in school, I wasn’t really sure what it was prior to this. The LibraryThing: For Libraries page does a good job of going over the basics. Essentially, it’s a way of integrating Amazon-like features to [...]
People who borrowed this item…
Posted in Academic Library, Catalogues on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the great features of Amazon is that it provides suggestions on what other books might interest you. Wouldn’t it be great if libraries could harness their own circulation data and provide something similar? Something like, “people who borrowed this item, also borrowed…” Well thanks to Dave Pattern at “Self-Plagerism is Style” that feature [...]
The Scriblio Scramble
Posted in Academic Library, Catalogues on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While the chat services I found were definitely helpful, I was left wanting something a little more colorful, something with more pizzaz. I didn’t have to look far before I found Scriblio, a free open source content management system that imports a library’s OPAC into a WordPress format (just like this blog). It sounded intriguing [...]
