Thing 16: It's a LibraryThing

"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them." - Stephen Fry

This was actually quite a nice task to do, I would even go as far as to say it was fun. As with the other tasks I haven't used this site for work purposes (yet!), instead I sat there for a wee while and just started adding some of my favourite books that I could remember off the top of my head. I decided to add not only fiction but some of my other favourite reading subjects; football (mainly Arsenal), history and music, so as best to use the edit collections tool.

I've added the links to each collection below. I may get judged by the lack of 'high-brow' titles as something like a moron... meh!<shrugs shoulders>

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry
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Fiction

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?offset=0&previousOffset=0&previousOffset=0&view=liamthornhill&collection=290537&shelf=shelf

Football
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?offset=0&previousOffset=0&view=liamthornhill&shelf=shelf&collection=290536

History
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?offset=0&previousOffset=0&view=liamthornhill&shelf=shelf&collection=290539

Music
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?offset=0&previousOffset=0&view=liamthornhill&shelf=shelf&collection=290535

I can certainly see how this could be useful in the library. We change our book display once a month and produce a book list on the chosen subject. LibraryThing could be a much quicker, slightly prettier method of sharing those book lists. We also publish a list of new books once a month and again, this could be an attractive alternative. Giving people an option to simply click the link and actually see the new books is a nice idea.
However, there are drawbacks. The information we supply on our book lists contains the classmark which of course LibraryThing would not be able to provide. Another negative is you cannot seem to add NICE guidelines. For these reasons I'm not sure that we'd want to use LibraryThing as a substitute for our book lists, but we could find another use for it, I'm sure we could.