In which Library Thing is Win
May. 29th, 2011 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primsongHope everyone's Memorial Day weekend is a good one - cold and wet here (what else? Someone apparently forgot to pay the Sunshine bill this spring).
Watching over the very last of my grade-school library being boxed up, found three schools that were happy to give them a good home - doing better with it as time passes, stiff upper lip and all that, and I've made some progress in sorting things out with the tiny number of people who have expressed the opinion that churches no longer NEED libraries anyway, as "everyone just looks things up online nowdays". (To a librarian, them's fightin' woids...)
I'm hoping to have the new church library up and running by September.
It was about this point that a Bright rainbow of Library Happiness came in - www.librarything.com
BookishSquee! Oh bless the fellow who came up with this - I am so incredibly tickled with it! Got a lifetime account set up for my church, and one for me as well, added a random handful of books I had near my computer to give it a test drive and am SO pleased with the layout and ease of use and... everything! I love how you can even note what you are currently reading and find others reading the same book and talk about it to make a book discussion group. Coolness and delight!
I can even use the direct link to the collection on our church website to direct people to it and they won't need a password or anything to browse from wherever they are. *boing*
Watching over the very last of my grade-school library being boxed up, found three schools that were happy to give them a good home - doing better with it as time passes, stiff upper lip and all that, and I've made some progress in sorting things out with the tiny number of people who have expressed the opinion that churches no longer NEED libraries anyway, as "everyone just looks things up online nowdays". (To a librarian, them's fightin' woids...)
I'm hoping to have the new church library up and running by September.
It was about this point that a Bright rainbow of Library Happiness came in - www.librarything.com
BookishSquee! Oh bless the fellow who came up with this - I am so incredibly tickled with it! Got a lifetime account set up for my church, and one for me as well, added a random handful of books I had near my computer to give it a test drive and am SO pleased with the layout and ease of use and... everything! I love how you can even note what you are currently reading and find others reading the same book and talk about it to make a book discussion group. Coolness and delight!
I can even use the direct link to the collection on our church website to direct people to it and they won't need a password or anything to browse from wherever they are. *boing*
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Date: 2011-05-30 03:22 am (UTC)Please keep us updated on the situation!
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Date: 2011-05-30 12:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-30 02:07 pm (UTC)The recs feature looks very promising indeed - I'm looking forward to exploring it more and maybe writing some reviews later on too. :-)