librarything

Welcome to the 'librarything' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'librarything'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “librarything”

• Sanditon, Austen’s last unfinished work is haute at LibraryThing

  
  Austenprose — Authority: 418
  This was a happy discovery indeed. LibraryThing lists the most requested new title among their December 2009 Early Reviewers choices as Sanditon , Austen’s last and unfinished novel! Early Reviewers is a service for LibraryThing members who want to receive free advance copies of books in exchange for a review ...
  1 week ago

• Special Holiday Grind Contest

  
  Lesa's Book Critiques — Authority: 519
  I know its unusual for me to kick off a contest on Tuesday, but Ill find out how many of you are paying attention. And, I have a very special giveaway this week. Cleo Coyle, author of Holiday Grind , is offering one reader a personalized copy of the book, to be sent directly from her. So, this time, you have to ...
  1 week ago

• Social Cataloging

  
  Pattern Recognition — Authority: 117
  A great presentation by Tim Spalding called What is Social Cataloging? , from the LIANZA 2009 conference in New Zealand. I recommend it if you’re at all interested in metadata, LibraryThing, or, I suppose, Tim Spalding. Concluding Keynote at LIANZA 09 in Christchurch, NZ. Covers LibraryThing, tagging, personal ...
  1 week ago

• Will librarians go the way of Kirkus and E&P—and this bird—if students don’t use them often enough?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  As if the Kirkus and E&P shutdown announcements aren’t enough for traditionalists, here’s a warning for savvy librarians eager to avoid the fate of this bird —if they want to stay at an academic or public library rather than end up in the corporate world. Project Information Literacy ’s recent paper ...
  2 weeks ago

• 999 Challenge - December 2009

  
  Readers in the Mist — Authority: 128
  The Neighbour by Lisa Gardner (Crime) : Sandra, a teacher, and Jason, a reporter, are a married couple with a three year old daughter who they are totally devoted to. They appear to be living the perfect life and then one night Sandra disappears without a trace. DD Warren is a career police officer who thinks Jason ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Fortsas Bibliohoax

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 719
  In 1840, book collectors from around Europe flocked to the Belgian town of Binche hoping to buy at auction the late Jean Nepomucene Auguste Pichauld, Comte de Fortsass collection of one-of-a-kind books. Unfortunately for them, neither the man nor his collection ever existed. More recently, librarian and ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Fortsas Bibliohoax

  
  blacksundae — Authority: 99
  Jean Nepomucene Auguste Pichauld, Comte de Fortsas, was a man with a singular passion. He collected books of which only one copy was known to exist. If he ever discovered that one of the volumes in his library had a duplicate anywhere in the world, he would immediately dispose of it. So when he died on September 1, ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Acquisition: The Sigel Regiment

  
  We Tree — Authority: 132
  My copy of The Sigel Regiment: A History of the 26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865, by James S. Pula arrived in the mail this week.Normally this is not my type of reading material, but my great-great-great grandfather served in that group, so that has me suddenly interested in military history. Did you know ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Day The Highway Went Coast-to-Coast: 70+ SocNet Feeds Normalized by New API

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
  [IMG: http://www.family-learning-center.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d24ce_Cliqsetlogo.jpg]
  3 weeks ago

• Libraries and crowdsourcing - 6 examples

  
  Musings about librarianship — Authority: 99
   Crowd sourcing is defined as "for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group crowd of people or community in the form of an open call." The key here is that the work has to be done by non-employees so a group of librarians from your institution ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tuesday Thingers: SantaThing

  
  Joy's Blog — Authority: 120
  Tuesday Thingers is hosted every week by Wendi of Wendis Book Corner (thanks, Wendi!), and this week her question is about LibraryThings Christmas gift-giving feature, SantaThing: "Have you ever participated in SantaThing (it is in its third year)? If so, what did you like? Dislike? Are you... [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Los Delicious de los libros

  
  Promocin de servicios de informacin en las redes sociales — Authority: 109
  Y no podíamos terminar nuestra semana de marcadores sociales sin conocer algunas herramientas que emulan la finalidad y aplicación del Delicious pero en este caso aplicado sólo al material librario: Reader² :una herramienta de etiquetado social para describir, buscar y recomendar libros. Lib.rario.us : ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about librarything