Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): LibraryThing at ALA—with reviews in your catalog!
I'm really looking for different ways to have students post book reviews..... so what can library thing do?
Here's what I found.... As you can see I've added the 5/6 and 7/8 battle books and created a book cover widget for each. The tool for doing this is very easy and intuitive. I like the ability to see what it will look like before you commit to the java script. (though this seems to be a common feature on script generators).
It all was really cool till I clicked on a book cover and it took me to amazon. I thought it would take me to LIbraryThing. I was hoping to use this to get kids to go to library thing and add book reviews. So I don't know....
My other idea for this widget was to put one on the school home page of books that teachers and/or students are reading now-- or maybe the most popular books of the month... (will have to figure out how to get that data from our system!)
Anyway, I'll keep playing with this and if anyone has any ideas on this- chime in!
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So I submitted a request to learn about adding LibraryThing to my OPAC.
well- I can not get all of the 5/6 books to show up in the widget. I have completely deleted and replaced several times... changes settings on the library thing end... just don't know- this is when all the tech is not fun!
There is a way to change where the covers take you to. It doesn't have to be Amazon.... Can't remember where that is right now but I did find it when I was looking a couple of weeks ago.
LT is something that I like to use to look for suggestions for new books but I have heard a lot of good ideas as part of this class on how to use it in the library.
Let me know how this works for you.
Ann
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