I was thrilled to read last night that LibraryThing’s latest hire, Sonya Green, is a UIUC GSLIS grad.  Way to go Sonya!

Thanks to a discussion on the oss4lib list, I was made aware of this post by Karl Fogel about the importance of insisting “that bibliographic data be license-free.” His comment is in the context of the recently released draft report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. Karl recommends that [...]

Call me cranky. Say I am just not willing to write anything positive about this organization. Whatever. I inwardly cheered when I read Tim Spalding’s (LibraryThing) critique of OCLC’s latest report. It is right on target. By way of contrast, Andrew Pace gushes about how “this is our report; we [...]

Ann Ercelawn, a dear friend and co-moderator of the SERIALST discussion list, posted a survey on that list yesterday that asked for responses to a series of questions relating to how we keep current within the LIS field. Below is the response I sent her. It’s not as detailed or complete as it [...]

Here is a link to a post by Tim Spalding of LibraryThing that describes his latest adventure: LibraryThing for libraries. What can I say? Just, WOW. If I had control over a library catalog that would be suitable for this, I’d jump on it right away and implement his free widget. [...]

Great article (found via Steven Cohen’s Library Stuff blog) on LibraryThing. While some competitors have recently entered the same type of niche (such as Shelfari), noone does it better than Tim Spalding, Abby Blachly, and others at LibraryThing.
Link to A Cozy Book Club, in a Virtual Reading Room - New York Times

This past Saturday I logged into iChat and saw that Tim Spalding was online as well, so I sent him a request to do a video chat. (For those of you unlucky enough to not be Mac owners, well, this kind of interaction is a piece of cake!) Tim accepted my invitation and [...]

TagFetch Searches YouTube, Flickr and More
This new service sounds quite interesting. I haven’t really tried it out yet, though. One big missing piece here is LibraryThing. I hope that someday the extensive amount of tags used in LibraryThing will be included in such metasearch engines.

LibraryThing > Our poor moose
It’s taken me a while to do but I wanted to comment on this interesting post from the folks at LibraryThing about a moose incident near their building. I thought it was incredible that a moose had wandered into Portland, Maine! I’ve been there (and elsewhere throughout the state) [...]

Marc Meola from ACRLog writes about the Wall St. Journal article on LibraryThing. What stood out to me in his post was the phrase “Maybe I’m just being grumpy…” I am glad he wrote that, admitting that sometimes we who blog can sometimes just be in a particularly negative frame of mind. [...]