I've catalogued a small collection of Tasmanian Tiger books onto Library Thing. The fate of this beautiful animal should sadden us all :
This is film of the last Tasmanian Tiger:
Also - this is what Stephen Abrams from SirsiDynix has to say about Library Thing:
" Stephen's Lighthouse
July 4, 2007
LibraryThing
As I predicted at ALA, LibraryThing is still growing - and quickly.
Here are the top 100 largest libraries in the US by volume.
LibraryThing has passed Harvard University, the second-largest library in the United States. LibraryThing members have cataloged some 15,731,298 books, putting them 175,000 copies above Harvard's count.
That's cool. Now we all know sheer numbers aren't the only measurement but it is quite a collaborative accomplishment. As they note in their post, there are other ways to review collections, like suitability of collections for purpose, diversity and quality evaluations, depth measurements, etc.are valid views too. If we look at OCLC's WorldCat title measurement it's well over 85,000,000 titles and 1 billion holdings growing at 1 every 10 seconds - yet we'd never call it comprehensive. So LT has a way to go if they count other electonric collections like SirsiDynix's NDP or OCLC, etc. or if the world of libraries started to aggregate their own collections in a thoughtful way...
I wonder how big the Amazon database is? I'll' have to check.
LibraryThing is one of the most interesting library projects to watch. I met the founder, Tim Spalding, at ALA. There's more to this project than meets the eye...
Stephen
Posted by stephen at July 4, 2007 2:41 PM "
I've use Rollyo to generate a custom search engine which will search for "Reference Desk Stuff" across a list of technology sites - the results are very useful.
Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine
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