{"id":2059,"date":"2007-05-14T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T17:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-05-14T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T17:31:44","slug":"librarything-for-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/librarything-for-libraries.html","title":{"rendered":"LibraryThing for Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/forlibraries\/\">LibraryThing for Libraries<\/a> has launched!\u00a0\u00a0Without needing to alter your existing ILS software beyond a few lines of javascript in\u00a0your\u00a0OPAC&#8217;s page footer, you can add the following functionality to your book catalog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Links to\u00a0other editions and translations.<\/li>\n<li>Links to &#8220;similar books&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0Tag Cloud, which\u00a0can do wonders to supplement our often obscure subject headings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Features that are forthcoming include patron reviews and ratings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first\u00a0place to go live with this\u00a0is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danburylibrary.org\/\">Danbury Library<\/a> in CT.\u00a0 Check out their catalog to see how well everything integrates.<\/p>\n<p>How do you get this?\u00a0 Well, for now at least,\u00a0you just need to contact Tim or Abby at LibraryThing and take a bit of time to set things up.\u00a0 If they get too swamped in requests, they may need to start charging a &#8220;setup fee&#8221;.\u00a0 Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/thingology\/2007\/05\/danbury-ct-kicks-off-librarything-for.php\">blog entry<\/a> gives quite a bit of detail on what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/dewey.library.nd.edu\/mailing-lists\/ngc4lib\/\">NGC4Lib<\/a> listserv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LibraryThing for Libraries has launched!\u00a0\u00a0Without needing to alter your existing ILS software beyond a few lines of javascript in\u00a0your\u00a0OPAC&#8217;s page footer, you can add the following functionality to your book catalog: Links to\u00a0other editions and translations. Links to &#8220;similar books&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/librarything-for-libraries.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2940,2943,2951,2952,2966,2977],"tags":[3416,3417],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ils","category-libraries","category-online-databases","category-online-services","category-software","category-web-design","tag-connecticut","tag-danbury-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-xd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}