Now this is fun! It’s so fast! And you don’t have to do all that pesky, time consuming, cataloguing. (My apologies to all librarians who love to catalogue the traditional way).

I really like having images of the book covers included in the Library Thing catalogue. I know that there are Libraries out there in the real world who do this too. I wish we had this function on TAFEcat. So many library users identify the items they need by what they look like, leading to requests for “the small red book” etc.

I’ve added a widget to my blog sidebar that links to my Library Thing catalog (only a few titles in there so far).  In WordPress you have to go into Design, then widgets and add as text widget. Here is the link,  http://www.librarything.com/catalog/gipsylibrarian

One thing I am a bit concerned about is that the link to my catalog would give editing rights to anyone who accessed it. Perhaps there is a way to prevent this. I have no objection to people viewing and searching my book collection, but I’d prefer to keep control of the editing rights (adding, deleting titles, ratings etc).  Otherwise, why bother having a secure login and password?

Library Thing for Libraries may be worth further exploration, but I don’t really understand the technical side of setting up library catalogues and websites. I don’t know if these options would be useful, or even possible, or not….. Perhaps tag browsing??