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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m not sure where to even begin with this blog post…By that I mean that so much is happening and there is so much that I’ve wanted to comment on here but haven’t done so, such that my brain is scrambled (well, more so than usual).
For example, I continue to be incredibly impressed with Tim [...]

I’ve mentioned LibraryThing several times already, but I have to write about it again, this time, because of its groundbreaking and chaotic foray into cataloging nirvana, er, FRBR. Basically Tim Spalding has set LibraryThingers (LibraryThingamabobbers?) loose on figuring out what a “work” is and combining multiple versions of a work together into a “work” [...]

I was happy to see an announcement today from Tim Spalding, creator/maintainer of LibraryThing, about the availability of RSS/HTML feeds. Tim’s work in developing a library community centered around a shared online catalog of user’s books is one of the standout ideas/creations of the past year. He is very responsive to user input [...]

I saw a link to an interview with Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing, via Library Stuff. The interview itself is available at Emily Chang’s eHub. LibraryThing continues to be one of my all time favorite sites, even though I haven’t had time lately to devote to it. Upon first look, I quickly [...]