LibraryThing
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| URL | librarything.com (Japanese edition) |
|---|---|
| Type | List, community site |
| Operator | Tim スパルディング (the most major shareholder) AbeBooks () CIG () |
| The founder | Tim スパルディング |
| Registration | Option |
| Establishment day | August 29, 2005 |
LibraryThing is ソーシャルカタロギング () web application to save the list of the book and various types of meta data, and to share it. There are a writer, a library, the use by the publishing company as well as an individual.
The stronghold in United States of America State of Maine Portland [1]. I was developed by Tim スパルディング, and use was started on August 29, 2005. As of October, 2011, 1,400,000 users and 66 million books are registered [2].
Table of contents
Function
The main function is list making of the books based on the data which imported from the library connected to six stores of Amazon.com in Z39.50. It is recorded with a Dublin Core and machine possible reading list. The user can import the information of the American Library of Congress, National Library of Australia, Canadian national library, document building (), a Great Britain library, 690 libraries including Yale University [3]. When there is not a record from those information, I can register the information of the book from a blank form [4].
Social function
Bookmark manager "delicious" and [5] and music site "Last.fm" and synchronization are possible [6]. In similar book catalog site with Goodreads, Shelfari (), aNobii (), BookJetty, weRead () [7].
Stockholder
Online bookstore "AbeBooks" () (series of Amazon) purchased 40% of stocks of LibraryThing in May, 2006. A purchase amount of money is not announced [8]. The Cambridge information group () won few stocks in January, 2009, too, and Boker () of the subsidiary became the formal distributor to the library [9].
Advertising
In June, 2006, LibraryThing was hit by a slash dot effect by an article of The Wall Street Journal [10]. The site developer reinforced a server for traffic to increase. The "UnSuggester" function which looked for a recommended book for the cause with the specific book which was not preference in December of the year attracted attention in a slash dot more [11].
Allied item
- Fork Sono me
- Tagging
- Documents database ()
- OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)
Footnote
- ^ http://www.librarything.com/snailmail.php
- ^ "Zeitgeist Overview." LibraryThing. October 1, 2011 reading.
- ^ "Add books to your library". June 3, 2008 reading.
- ^ "Manual Entry." October 13, 2010 reading.
- ^ Regan, Jim (November 9, 2005). "Do your own LibraryThing". Christian Science Monitol March 13, 2007 reading.
- ^ Bain, Alistair (April 28, 2007). "LibraryThing". Desert of Zi/ June 20, 2007 reading.
- ^ Woodroof, Martha (March 20, 2008). "Web Sites Let Bibliophiles Share Books Virtually". NP5 May 14, 2009 reading.
- ^ Davies, Richard (May 16, 2006). " ABEBOOKS.COM ACQUIRES MAJOR STAKE IN LIBRARYTHING.COM – A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE FOR BIBLIOPHILES ". AbeBooks.co
- ^ CIG Acquires Minority Stake in LibraryThing; Bowker to Distribute to Libraries - 1/22/2009 - Library Journal
- ^ Rutkoff, Aaron (June 27, 2006). "Social Networking for Bookworms". Wall Street Journal December 15, 2006 reading.
- ^ "Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want." Slashdot (December 4, 2006). December 15, 2006 reading.
Allied documents
- Wenzler, J. LibraryThing and the library catalog: adding collective intelligence to the OPAC. A Workshop on Next Generation Libraries. San Francisco State University CARL NITIG; It is 2007 in 7 in September.
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