I have the same question. There are lots of better ways to get and
manage metadata about books. If I were trying to catalog my books I'd go
to WorldCat for metada and if I were an unafilliated scholar I'd use
RedLightGreen, Open WorldCat or the Library of Congress catalog. If you
are serious about keeping a catalog there's software like RefWorks and
EndNote.
Who keeps catalogs of their books anyway? Are these people who loan
their books out and keep track of who has them?
Sue
>>> ross.singer_at_LIBRARY.GATECH.EDU 06/21/06 8:55 PM >>>
So, in a meeting today (in a group that is designing our community
contributed catalog, Communicat) we were discussing LibraryThing.
Who uses this? And for what? It seems a... somewhat pointless service.
Regardless of how useful it may be to actually get the metadata and
whatnot.
-Ross.
Received on Wed Jun 21 2006 - 22:23:34 EDT