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Tag: LibraryThing

May 15, 2012 by Gary Price

LibraryThing’s OverCat Now Includes All 12.3 Million Open Access Bibliographic Records from the Harvard Library

That’s the word in a recent post on the LibraryThing Blog. Big Kudos to LT! From the Blog Post: It took a while to process, but we’ve finally completed adding all 12.3 million MARC records (3.1GB of bibliographic goodness!) to LibraryThing. They’ve gone into OverCat, our giant index of library records from around the world—now […]

June 25, 2011 by Gary Price

Info Industry Update: News from Library Anywhere, LibraryThing, EBSCO, and IEEE

1. Library Anywhere Adds QR Codes Superb idea Tim! 2. New on LibraryThing: “What Should You Borrow” Recommendation  Feature Cool Idea Tim! 3. EBSCO Publishing Increases Access to Retro Indexes from H.W. Wilson 4. New IEEE Web Portal Provides Access to the Latest Developments in Life Sciences

May 2, 2011 by Gary Price

"LibraryThing for Publishers adds ONIX and FTP"

Yet another enhancement, this one aimed at publishers, to LibraryThing was announced by Jeremy on the LibraryThing blog earlier today. We’ve added the capability for publishers participating in our LibraryThing for Publishers program to transfer their data to LT using the ONIX metadata format, a bibliographic format virtually all publishers produce, and using FTP, the […]

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From Galleycat: "Top 20 Facebook Apps for Book Lovers" + LibraryThing on Facebook

April 22, 2011 by Gary Price

Here’s a new list compiled by Jason Boog,  the editor of GalleyCat, of the most popular Facebook apps for book loves. The rankings come from the the number of monthly active users for each Facebook app. 1. Goodreads: Place where you see what your friends are reading. (150,734 monthly active users) 2. Visual Bookshelf: See what […]

A Mobile Interface to Library of Congress Catalog Now Available from LibraryAnywhere/LibraryThing

April 12, 2011 by Gary Price

Many thanks to LibraryThing CEO and Lead Developer Tim Spalding and his team there is now a mobile friendly interface to search the Library of Congress catalog. While there are other mobile resources from LC*** this is the first mobile interface to the OPAC that we’ve heard about. A few week’s ago Spalding tweeted that […]

New from LibraryThing: Reading Levels (aka Lexile Measures) For Books in Their Database

April 5, 2011 by Gary Price

A post on the LibraryThing Blog reports that the MetaMetrics’ Lexile Framework® for Reading, is now available for about 20% of the books in the LT database. For those who like numbers that’s 12,043,858 books (as of today). For example, here are books with Lexile measures from 580L-720L. The sliders that allow you to find […]

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