Today’s the last day of summer classes here at Webster University Vienna. Next week will be quieter and I’ll be able to catalog a backlog of books piled up on the floor here. Maybe I’ll be able to explore this wiki I found today: Library 2.0 in 15 minutes a day.
It looks like just the kind of thing I need.
I’m still adding books to the aNobii shelf, just because it’s so easy, but I don’t think it will be so helpful for students really. They will start at our shelf, and then do a search with the search form on the top of the page there, and they’ll end up with a list of all the books in aNobii that match that term. The search just our shelf form is hidden away under a javascript rollover. LibraryThing works the other way around. From the “your library” page, you can only search your own shelf. Perfect. Another thing that is better, if your book doesn’t have a cover image, it doesn’t put up a big ugly ‘no cover image’ image like on aNobii. I guess aNobii want to pressure you to scan in all your covers, but I like the look of LibraryThing better. I think the aNobii page makes it look like our catalog is out of date, just because most of the books went out of print before the Internet took over the planet.
