LibraryThing

I actually did this some months ago when I first heard of LibraryThing and was talking to Hamish about the possibility of eLGAR joining. So if you look under geoffali (possibly - we may have not gone public yet. This exercise will make me much more receptive to the sharing idea) you will find about 8 of our books listed. A good start, but nothing since. We see it as a way of weeding out about another 300 volumes from our overstuffed bookshelves. I can say it looks to a really addictive pasttime, and there is heaps of ways of looking at the info once it is in. We chose a selection of books to begin with that nobody seemed to have.
As far as eLGAR goes we are almost there, it is a matter of negotiating an acceptable library price. Membership will give us, except for Auckland who have Aquabrowser which has greater functionality, the ability, or at least give the public the ability to add tags to book titles, it will also allow ratings and add jacket pictures. We have some of this already via Syndetics, an expensive service we are not using fully. LibraryThing may allow us to drop this. LibraryThing is probably a temporary subscription that we will abandon when all libraries settle on and install a federated search engine.