What is LibraryThing for Libraries?

LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) enhancements enrich your library's online catalog with the power and fun of Library 2.0.

• Give your patrons exciting new content, including recommendations, tag clouds, a virtual shelf browser, and the ability to write reviews. Pick and choose which enhancements you'd like.
• Browse, search and discover your library's holdings in a new, powerful, and engaging way.
• LTFL works by adding data and features directly into your OPAC. Installation is simple.
• Try it yourself at High Plains Library District or any of the libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.

Your library's on the phone!

• Library Anywhere takes any library catalog and makes it mobile, instantly.

Reviews enhancement

• Patron reviews. Let your patrons rate and review right in your catalog.
• Already full. Access over 450,000 high-quality reviews from LibraryThing.com, share reviews with other LTFL libraries and let your patrons add their own.
• Widgets. Patrons get a first-of-its-kind library-branded blog widget and "At My Library" Facebook application, allowing them to show their friends what they're reading at the library they love.
• Try it yourself at High Plains Library District or any of the libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.

Catalog enhancements

• Book recommendations. Offer reader's advisory on the spot. Show high-quality "recommended" or "similar" books that can be found at your library—end dead-end searches! Recommendations cover more than 4.8 million ISBNs.
• Tag browsing. Enhance your catalog with the power and flexibility of searching and browsing your books by tags. LTFL provides 65 million tags, vetted by librarians.
• Other editions and translations. Link related editions and translations of the same work. "FRBR"-ize your catalog with a few lines of HTML.
• Try it yourself at High Plains Library District or any of the libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.

Shelf Browse enhancement

• Shelf Browse uses your call numbers and ties them with cover images to give your patrons the context and serendipity of browsing a physical shelf.
• Includes a mini shelf-browser that sits on your detail pages, and a full-screen version, launched from the detail page.
• Use collections to limit Shelf Browse to a certain collection—YA books, AV, etc.
• If a book doesn't have a cover, we provide a default one, with the title and author printed over it.
• Try it yourself at High Plains Library District or any of the libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.