Archive for June, 2013

Thursday, June 27th, 2013

Book Display Widgets in Facebook

This new feature allows you to use our fantastic and versatile Book Display Widgets within Facebook. Add a Book Display Widget tab to your library’s Facebook page to easily show off new books, staff picks, featured collections, and more.

Check it out. Give it a try on our fake library Facebook page, here. If this were connected to a real library, clicking on a book would open to that item’s bib page in the catalog.

Set it up. If you already subscribe to Book Display Widgets, this is a free addition! Just read here for how to set up widgets on your library’s Facebook page. On that same page you’ll see a link to a screencast to help you get set up.

Learn more. Interested in Book Display Widgets for your library? Email me (abby@librarything.com) with any questions about this or any of the LibraryThing for Libraries products. To subscribe, contact Peder Christensen at Bowker—toll-free at 877-340-2400 or email Peder.Christensen@bowker.com.

Labels: Book Display Widgets, librarything for libraries

Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

June Early Reviewers batch is up!

The June 2013 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 106 books this month, and a grand total of 2,865 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Monday, June 24th at 6 p.m. EDT.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, and more. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Henry Holt and Company Taylor Trade Publishing Putnam Books
Riverhead Books The Permanent Press Prufrock Press
Random House Candlewick Press Tundra Books
Crown Publishing Algonquin Books Plume
Palgrave Macmillan Pintail Ballantine Books
Sakura Publishing Marble City Publishing Apex Publications
Dundurn Information Today, Inc. koehler Books
Nonstop Press Bethany House Pixel Hall Press
Penguin Group (USA) In Fact Books Greenleaf Book Group
Akashic Books February Partners WaterBrook Press
Cleis Press Alaskan Gothic Press Humanist Press
Quirk Books Thames River Press Whitepoint Press
Open Books BookViewCafe Arabella Publishing
McFarland Human Kinetics Orca Book Publishers
JournalStone Garnet Publishing Chosen Books
Booktrope Dragonwell Publishing December House
Del Rey Wayman Publishing Penguin Young Readers Group
Istoria Books

Labels: early reviewers