www.librarything.comLisa Oldham- Libraries Manager, Tasman

District

• Tim Spalding – web designer and bibliophile

• Launched Library thing August 2005

• Idea was from a programme he wrote-age 9

• He shared it with friends and had no expectation of the momentum it would gain.

Tim Spalding –inventor and owner

Abby Blachley – Head LibrarianABE books – investor – 40%-since May 2006

Sonya Green-Library thing for Libraries◦Sonya@librarything.com

Web 2- interactive applicationWeb Based cataloguing

For individualsFor Groups

For Libraries

Online Private Access CatalogOr...

Online Public Access Catalog

LibraryThing uses Amazon.com and 680 libraries that provide open access to their collections with the Z39.50 protocol

Free account allows you to catalogue up to 200 books. ($25US – lifetime membership)

The 415,000 people are using Library Thing have added 27 million books! 34 Million tags assigned .

Social Networking Groups Talk Tagging Local Zeitgeist FUN Library Applications

User generated Subject Headings Tag Cloud generated by complex algorithm to

convey both frequency and salience of tags Top 35 tags displayed for each work one off tags are taken out of view by the

algorithm- eliminating tags: “spare room”, “wardrobe” etc.

Tag combining – done by users-who make WW2 and wwii into one tag

Not case sensitive - WWII and wwii are all counted together for counting purposes.

1. Books and reading – Fiction2. Storytelling – Fiction3. Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) --

Fiction

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Lianza –Top of the South Weekend School

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