Another OCLC logo parody. The person who did wishes to remain anonymous—and for good reason!
Archive for December, 2008
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
LTFL Reviews now works with iBistro and Voyager catalogs
When we decided to add Reviews as an enhancement to LibraryThing for Libraries, we wanted to work on just a few OPACs at a time.
Otherwise, it would be 2010 before we finished Reviews (and no one wanted that). We started with Horizon Information Portal and WebPac, for a number of reasons*. Next, we decided to get iBistro and Voyager† on board.
We’ve had a couple of iBistro libraries add the Reviews Enhancement, but no Voyager libraries are live yet. You can check out the full list here.
* We knew the systems well, many libraries use them, and who doesn’t like saying HIP?
† I can’t talk about that particular OPAC without pronouncing it ‘vee-ger’ in my head. I’m pretty sure it’s just me.
Labels: book reviews, enhancement, ExLibris, iBistro, librarything for libraries, LTFL, sirsidynix, Voyager
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Jasper!
A joyous welcome to Jasper Daniel Blachly-Nelson, born to LibraryThing’s Librarian Abby (ablachly) and her wife Sara, yesterday at 8:56 PM—9 pounds 3 ounces, 21.5 inches long, 166 books!
Update: More photos on Flickr!
Update 2: Lisa and I visited Sara, Abby and Jasper at the hospital today. Everyone is doing great, and Jasper—cuter even than his picture—is clearly going to grow like a weed.
Labels: LibraryThing babies
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Book blogs?
I need to broaden my horizons, and pick up a few good book-industry and bookseller blogs. I don’t care about book deals, but I wouldn’t mind some insight into how publishing is changing, particularly when it comes to technology.
I subscribe to some 114 blogs right now—mostly library-related, with a smattering of technology, startup, web 2.0 and competitor ones thrown in. But I don’t follow much in the way of publishing industry blogs—pretty much only the BookFinder Journal, Michael Cairns’ Persona non Data, Eoin Purcell, BookBrunch and Joe Wikert. And I only read one bookseller blog, the recently-discovered Hang Fire Books, which I read for the pulp covers.
Does anyone know of any good blogs?
Labels: book blogs, books
Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Happy Holidays, from LibraryThing!
From all of us here at LibraryThing, we hope you have a wonderful set of holidays, whatever they may be.
Many thanks to all who participated in SantaThing, for bringing new books into a fellow LibraryThing member’s home. The SantaThing page is open, so each participant can see who their Secret Santa was, and any suggestions.
Underwaterguy and I have just cracked our new books (thanks, Moomin_Mama and strongstuff). We plan on having a very reading day.
Note from Tim: Many thanks to Sonya and Abby (and Sara!) for doing 95% of the SantaThing work. The ordering was a little easier this year, but there were more Santas—over 370.
Labels: santathing
