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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??
Google docs and zoho writer sound like they could be really useful for collaborating on work-related documents. Too bad we can’t access them at work – of course they are BLOCKED!!! Looks like we will continue to send documents back and forth by email, or store things in T:Drive to work on (we currently track changes by using methods such as typing in different colours – very high tech!).
I might look at these tools at home sometime, although then I would have to teach the people I know how to use them too. (Most of them don’t use or don’t like technology, or are too busy to learn about new tools).
Question: Is there an Institute option for collaborating on documents? Perhaps there is and I just don’t know about it.
