Call Me Marian

As this blog probably makes pretty clear, I’m most excited about the technological aspects of library-work.  I like to joke with my friends that the only time I interact with books is when I’m discarding the old and feeble books we don’t need anymore.  Today, however, I was busy shifting the books around when I [...]

Putting the Books in Library 2.0 (Part II)

In the last post, I talked about how LibraryThing works; today, I’d like to talk about how LibraryThing can work for libraries in the following ways:

Reader’s advisory
Networking with other libraries
Introducing tagging and 2.0 to patrons

1.  Readers’s Advisory
I think the most obvious application of LibraryThing for librarians is during reader’s advisory sessions.   I thought reader’s advisory was going [...]

Putting the Books in Library 2.0 with Library Thing (Part I)

Although I’ve been an avid reader all my life, I didn’t become a librarian out of a love of books; this a good thing because I find my job as a public librarian really doesn’t seem to involve books that much.  I spend most of my time with computers, which is what makes 2.0 so much [...]