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| URL | librarything.com |
|---|---|
| Type of site | Catalog and community |
| Registration | Free with upgrade option |
| Owner | Tim Spalding (majority) AbeBooks CIG |
| Created by | Tim Spalding |
| Launched | August 29, 2005 |
| Alexa rank |  10,085 (April 2013[update])[1] |
| Current status | Active |
LibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by individuals, authors, libraries and publishers.
Based in Portland, Maine,[2] LibraryThing was developed by Tim Spalding and went live on August 29, 2005. As of April 2013 it has over 1,650,000 users and more than 80 million books catalogued.[3]
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Features [edit]
The primary feature of LibraryThing is the cataloging of books by importing data from libraries through Z39.50 connections and from six Amazon.com stores. Library sources supply MARC and Dublin Core records to LT; users can import information from 690 libraries, including the Library of Congress, National Library of Australia, the Canadian National Catalogue, the British Library, and Yale University.[4] Should a record not be available from any of these sources, it is also possible to add the book information by using a blank form.[5]
Social features [edit]
LibraryThing's social features have been compared to bookmark manager Del.icio.us[6] and the collaborative music service Last.fm.[7] Similar book cataloging sites include Goodreads, Shelfari, aNobii, BookJetty, and weRead.[8]
Ownership and membership [edit]
LibraryThing is majority owned by founder Tim Spalding.[9] Online bookseller AbeBooks (now owned by Amazon) bought a 40% share in LibraryThing in May 2006 for an undisclosed sum.[10] In January 2009, Cambridge Information Group acquired a minority stake in the company, and their subsidiary Bowker became the official distributor to libraries.[9]
Publicity [edit]
At the end of June 2006, LibraryThing was subject to the Slashdot effect from a Wall Street Journal article.[11] The site's developers added servers to compensate for the increased traffic. In December of the same year, the site received yet more attention from Slashdot over its UnSuggester feature, which draws suggestions from books least likely to appear in the same catalog as a given book.[12]
See also [edit]
- Bibliographic database
- Collective intelligence
- Crowdsourcing
- Enterprise bookmarking
- Folksonomy
- List of social networking websites
- Ontology
- OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)
- Semantic similarity
- Tags
- Thesaurus
- Virtual community
- Weak ontology
Competitors
References [edit]
- ^ "Librarything.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ^ http://www.librarything.com/snailmail.php
- ^ "Zeitgeist Overview". LibraryThing. Retrieved 2013-04-06..
- ^ "Add books to your library". Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Manual Entry". Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ Regan, Jim (2005-11-09). "Do your own LibraryThing". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2007-03-13.
- ^ Bain, Alistair (2007-04-28). "LibraryThing". Desert of Zin. Retrieved 2007-06-20.
- ^ Woodroof, Martha (2008-03-20). "Web Sites Let Bibliophiles Share Books Virtually". NPR. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ a b "CIG Acquires Minority Stake in LibraryThing; Bowker to Distribute to Libraries". Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ Davies, Richard (2006-05-16). "ABEBOOKS.COM ACQUIRES MAJOR STAKE IN LIBRARYTHING.COM – A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE FOR BIBLIOPHILES". AbeBooks.com.
- ^ Rutkoff, Aaron (2006-06-27). "Social Networking for Bookworms". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2006-12-15.
- ^ "Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want". Slashdot. 2006-12-04. Retrieved 2006-12-15.
Further reading [edit]
- Wenzler, J. LibraryThing and the library catalog: adding collective intelligence to the OPAC. A Workshop on Next Generation Libraries. San Francisco State University CARL NITIG; September 7, 2007.
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