On 6/19/06, Lis Riba <LRiba_at_epnet.com> wrote:
> By the way, has anybody looked at what http://www.librarything.com/ is
> doing?
Yep.
> While this is geared towards individuals rather than institutional
> libraries, it may help to look at the kind of library tools that patrons are
> using for their own collections as a way of getting ideas to better serve
> them.
A trick I've seen on social network-y sites before is to create an
account for some group-y thing. David Hasselhoff, Dean Edwards,
Dallas Cowboys, what-have-you. Then other accounts "friend" that
accoun, and that's how they form groups around that interest.
Assuming a nice API to feed LibraryThing, what do people think of
"real" libraries adding their catalogs to that site in order to be
supernodes for their patrons to group around?
Received on Mon Jun 19 2006 - 10:09:01 EDT