Our keynote speaker at lunch was Tim Spalding developer and publisher of Library Thing (www.librarything.com)Tim is responsible for one of the hottest social networks and the best thing about the site it’s about BOOKS!! He started this site as a personal project to catalog his and friends’ library collection and was surprised when it took off and became a great site for other to lock into books.
Library Thing was one of the featured sites on the Minnesota 23 Things on a Stick(reference to our state fair food on a stick) website. I finished the 23 Things on Round 2 and I will admit I did not given this enough of my time. But after hearing him speak today I am going to revisit the site and use it more often professionally and personally.
What a great site for those who want to know similar books to read or find out i.e. what George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Addams had in common for books. This site is definitely worth taking a look at for your own personal library collection or sharing someone else’s.
Most of the people at the lunch if they are not already using Library Thing plan on giving it another look.
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