Librarything done and dusted. As others have mentioned a useful social tool to connect readers with other readers if it could be integrated into public library catalogues. I entered a bookshelf
of Doc Savage's library to test LibraryThing and it was easy to use although I needed to add some other resources to find bibliographic information for some older, obscure editions. I searched by ISBN because I wanted to record the actual edition I owned and this worked reasonably well . Tagging is an interesting concept and useful for a personal library, although I am not sure how well it works in larger groups. However I think the mixture of controlled vocabulary subject headings and the more spontaneous and common-language tags is the way of the future.
Librarything is fairly flexible in how it displays records and gives users the oportunity to change display formats. Subject headings generated even from Amazon seem reasonably accurate.
Librarything is still in it's Beta stage and seemed a little slow at times but I think this may ahve been a combination of my slow web connection and some problems the site was having at the time
I have also added the randomiser widgit to my blog to generated titles from my library.
2 comments:
You do the best title posts Doc Savage.
Thanks Pearl Bay. You will have probably guessed the origins of most of them.
"The Man of Bronze" as explained in the post is the nickname for Doc Savage
"My Friend Flickr" derives from the children's book
"Submitted For Your Perusal" was a catch phrase Rod Serling used when introducing Twilight Zone episodes
"6 and Out" was basically when I was tired and it was late
"The Revolution Will Be No Re-Run, Brother…" is a line from a Gil Scott Heron song called "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
"Can You Hear Me Major Tom?" is of course from Bowie's "Space Oddity"
"Feed Me" could be from anything but I link it to a line from the Roger Corman film "The Little Shop of Horrors". Its actually spoken by a giant omnivorous plant, which gives you a "taste" of the tenor of the film.
"The pump don't work cos the vandals took the handle..." of course is the last line of Subterranean Homesick Blues
And finally "Helps me find James Joyce, She always makes the right choice" is a line from the Go-Betweens song Karen, which is about Robert Foster's infatuation with the local public librarian.
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