LibraryThing

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LibraryThing

1. Go to LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com/) and "Take the tour," to read a little bit about the different features of LibraryThing.
2. Sign up for an account.
3. Add books to your library
   • Just type in the title, author, or ISBN (a nice feature for those of you who have bar-code scanners at your desk...), and then select your book from the list that pops up on the right. You can search Amazon or the Library of Congress.
   • If your book or edition does not appear, you can build a new record for it from scratch by clicking "Add the book manually"
4. Tag your books -
   • You can add tags to your books when you are building your library, or by clicking the pencil icon next to the record.
5. Write reviews of your books
   • To write a review of a book, you have to click on the 'pencil' icon next to the book on your library page.

Things To Do

1. Explore the Suggestions - try the book Suggester and Un-Suggester.
2. Add your profile to your blogroll.
3. Add LibraryThing and your profile to your del.icio.us list.
4. Write a blog post - What if the library catalog acted like this? What do you like about LibraryThing? What do you wish was different?

Next Assignment - Try out goodreads or, move on to Photo Sharing!

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