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Libraries as Conversations: Gorman, Hives and Catalogs
This is a disturbing ad. This was my introduction to a twenty-minute talk on social cataloging and LibraryThing given at an ALA RUSA MARS (gesundheit!) session called “Harnessing the Hive: Social...
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New York Times article A Hipper Crowd of Shushers. Extra points for mentioning both Library 2.0 and Jessamyn West (LT: jessamyn ). Jessamyn West, 38, an editor of “Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical...
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Getting real: Libraries are missing books
Back in March 2006, Jason Fried and his company 37Signals released the book Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application. Originally available in PDF format only,...
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The Jean Valjean of the library world
The biblioblogosphere–and Uncontrolled Vocabulary–are abuzz about Heidi Dalibor, a Grafton, MN, 20-year-old arrested for failing to pay library fines. After keeping two paperbacks (White Oleander and...
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New group: “Books in 2025—The Future of the Book World”
I’ve started a new discussion group LibraryThing Group, Books in 2025. The group aims to centralize and restart a site-wide conversation about the future of books and reading. It’s a conversation...
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BookPsychic.com: Personal recommendations at your library
We’re thrilled to announce the public launch of BookPsychic, a new way to get your library’s books into the hands of eager readers. BookPsychic is an easy and fun personal recommender system for...
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