During todays lesson we looked at LibraryThing. LibraryThing is another online service accessed through the internet which from my understanding is a networked catelogue which enables people to catelogue there books easily. So in this regard this would be useful for librarians/ library technicians to use as it makes cateloguing easy.
I think in terms of Library patrons using Librarything it would be handy for those avid readers as it connects people who have read that book so they can comment on them, and also instead of searching online for new books Librarything makes it easy as it comes up with suggestions of what books a patron may be interested in thus making the patron want to come back to libraries and borrow more books.
I think in terms of Library patrons using Librarything it would be handy for those avid readers as it connects people who have read that book so they can comment on them, and also instead of searching online for new books Librarything makes it easy as it comes up with suggestions of what books a patron may be interested in thus making the patron want to come back to libraries and borrow more books.
I think that it is definitely a resource that Libraries should consider using LibraryThing as it gets users interested in reading. I think they should as firstly they would benefit in terms of being able to catelogue books. Secondly I think that it provides another way for staff to see what resources/items people are mainly interested in when borrowing from Libraries. It would give staff an indication of what items may be in popular demand, so it would give staff the opportunity to perhaps look at purchasing more copies of particular books if they see it is in high demand and popular.
As well as this I think it would be a handy resource to have available for staff especially when patrons may come in wanting books from particular authors.So instead of having to rely on current knowledge of extensive range of genres and authors out there, they could easily access this site at their fingertips. By doing so you could show the client how to use this resource and thus they may use it later on to perhaps go and find books by that author or they may stumble across reviews of other books they may not have thought about reading.
Personally I think that being able to contribute tags, catelogue books at home,ratings and reviews for a book and common knowledge, is a great social network for libraries to have.But for me I would probably only use it to view reviews on particular books I am interested in.
As well as this I think it would be a handy resource to have available for staff especially when patrons may come in wanting books from particular authors.So instead of having to rely on current knowledge of extensive range of genres and authors out there, they could easily access this site at their fingertips. By doing so you could show the client how to use this resource and thus they may use it later on to perhaps go and find books by that author or they may stumble across reviews of other books they may not have thought about reading.
Personally I think that being able to contribute tags, catelogue books at home,ratings and reviews for a book and common knowledge, is a great social network for libraries to have.But for me I would probably only use it to view reviews on particular books I am interested in.
I agree that it would be useful when cataloguing books, because library catalogues sometimes have unreliable general keyword search and subject search options.
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