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What is LibraryThing for Libraries?

• LibraryThing for Libraries enriches your library's online catalog with the power and fun of Library 2.0.
• Give your patrons exciting new content, including recommendations, tag clouds, and the ability to write reviews.
• Let your patrons interact. Keep the control you want.
• Enhance your catalog with just a few lines of HTML. Works with any OPAC and requires no back-end integration. Really.
• Draw on the collective intelligence of your patrons and LibraryThing members.
• See a big list of libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.

What can I get?

Reviews Enhancement package:

• Patron reviews. Let your patrons rate and review right in your catalog.
• Already full. Comes with over 200,000 high-quality reviews from LibraryThing.com.
• Widgets. Patrons can show off reviews and their library with library-branded "blog widgets" and a Facebook application.

Catalog Enhancements package:

• Book recommendations. Give your patron high-quality read-alikes.
• Tag browsing. Enhance your catalog with the power and flexibility of searching and browsing your books by tags.
• Other editions and translations. Link related editions and translations of the same work. "FRBR"-ize your catalog with a few lines of HTML.

Everything package:

• Both. Better, cheaper!

How good is it?

LibraryThing for Libraries draws on LibraryThing.com, the social book cataloging website. Here are some of the straight stats. LibraryThing for Libraries enhances:

• Catalog Enhancements package
  • 75% or more of your ISBNs
  • recommendations covering 656,000 ISBNs
  • 40 million tags (vetted by LibraryThing)
  • other editions and translations covering 275,000 ISBNs
• Reviews Enhancements package
  • 250,000 reviews from LibraryThing
  • reviews covering 450,000 ISBNs