Thing 19, Week 8

I LOVE Library Thing!!! I've already been recommending it to friends who are book lovers so they can share their thoughts and libraries with other friends. I cataloged my five books very quickly and was impressed with the detail provided for each entry. I was reading one of the blog posts as well where Library Thing has cached book covers to share with other libraries and book stores to use in their OPACS or websites. What a wonderful tool. I definitely want to use the widget is some way to create recommended reading lists for students, parents and faculty members. (I don't know where I'm going to find the time to do all these things but I really, really want to).

I added the search widget for "my Library Thing" collection. I played with it a little bit but didn't get it quite wide enough on the page but it is still very usable. I also added an author tag cloud for the five books I've cataloged so far that is another great option. The reading reference options would be great on our Library web page. You could create and author tag cloud for "if you like reading this, then check out these other authors!!". That's the kind of questions I'm always getting from the kids. I wonder if you could add those kind of tag clouds into our OPAC??? A question to pose to Follett???

I also read through an option where you can upload your covers from your library, export them to Picassa and then create a poster of the covers. There are just too many options to talk about. I think I will probably sign up for the lifetime membership ($25) for myself just so I can keep adding books. I hope to get to use this tool quite a bit.