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 [...]
Minnesota Mapping: The Hennepin County Library System
Posted in Maps, Public Library on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For my first mashup quest, I figured I’d start looking for your standard library address/Google map mashup. I was actually surprised how hard it was to find! I figured any large library system, with multiple branches would have a google map. Such was not the case! Even here in Vancouver, the VPL system had a [...]
