Week 8 (#19) One of My FAVORITE DISCOVERIES!!!

I think LibraryThing is amazing and wonderful, and I am especially impressed with all the libraries I can search, even though I usually stick with the Library of Congress. I actually got hooked on LibraryThing way back in Week 5, so I was eager to check it out further at this point in Web 2.0.

Besides being interesting and a great deal of fun for me, I can see where librarians/libraries strapped for funds and short on personnel could use the cataloging aspect as a real time and money saver.

I am fascinated by the social aspects found in Zeitgeist, as well as the suggested tags for each title.

I was astounded at how easy it was to join, and I couldn't stop at adding only five titles to my library. I actually started by adding the titles from the current Texas Bluebonnet list that I have read thus far this summer, but then I also tried grabbing the webpage for the Masterlist off the TLA site, and this produced some interesting choices for me, as well as some unexpected results. For example, where I should have ended up with 20 titles in all, I now have 23, so I will set about to figure out why I have three more than should be there. To access my library catalog, please click on the link: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/smccoy

When I was searching for titles individually, I did notice that the book entitled Atherton: The House of Power produced no results, so I searched by the author's name, only to discover the book came up only as House of Power, even though the word Atherton is clearly on the cover that appears. I found this rather strange.

So, I'm off to delve deeper into LibraryThing, which is one of the most exciting things to which I've been introduced in Web 2.0. I am so glad I've kept at this online excursion called Web 2.0. Even though Web 2.0 has taken me awhile, I will always be glad I have been introduced to all the topics about which I knew absolutely nothing before this course.

By the way, thanks to how easy it is to delete from my catalog, I now have twenty Bluebonnet titles (which is what I should have), rather than 23 (where some duplicates had occurred when I grabbed the entire list on top of the individual titles I'd already added)! The learning never stops.

I also want to take a moment to thank Shirley and Jen for their willingness to add this course to what I know are their already overly busy schedules!!!

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