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Social Cataloguing. By Jessie Buckley. What is Social Cataloguing?. “.
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Social Cataloguing By Jessie Buckley
What is Social Cataloguing? “ Sites whose primary purpose is the cataloguing of material owned by its members (books, DVDs, music), while also building a community of users with that shared interest. Above and beyond the standard cataloguing, users build up a vast quantity of social data around the records, such as reviews, recommendations, ratings and tags. Rawson, J. 2011, ‘Social Cataloguing’, Socialoxfordlibs[wiki], Retrieved: 23 May 2011, From http://socialoxfordlibs.wikispaces.com/Social+cataloguing ”
Social Cataloguing sites • LibraryThing • Goodreads • Shelfari • aNobii • Bookjetty • weRead • Visual bookshelf
Common Features • Search for/add books • Tagging • Rate/review • Recommendations/connections • Friends/groups
LibraryThing • Founded by Tim Spalding, May 2006 • More than a Million members • More than 62 Million books • 700 sources • Free to catalog 200 books • Thingamabrarians
How are libraries using it? • To promote new books • To promote library (LibraryThing Local) • Adding social features to catalogue (LibraryThing for libraries)