LibraryThing for Libraries

Catalog Enrichment

• LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) is a system of OPAC enhancements, designed to make your catalog more engaging and informative.
• Give your patrons exciting new content, including: Ratings and reviews, Tags, Similar Books, Series, Awards, Shelf Browse, Stack Map, Other Editions, and Lexile Measures. Pick and choose which enhancement packages you'd like.
• Browse, search and discover your library's holdings in a new, powerful, and engaging way.
• » More information | Printable handout

BookPsychic

• BookPsychic is an easy and fun personal recommender system for library patrons.
• Recommends items from your library's collection and links directly to your catalog pages.
• Integrates with Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, and LibraryThing.
• Patrons can keep track of rated items and receive new book alerts and recommendations when they visit.
• Give it a try at BookPsychic.com.
• » More information | Printable handout

Book Display Widgets

• Show off your library's collection with eye-catching Book Display Widgets.
• Fill with any sort of book data—popular items in your library, an award, New York Times bestsellers, and more.
• Put them anywhere on your library's home page, blog or catalog. Click a book to see it in the catalog.
• Includes many attractive preset types. See our Showcase page.
• » More information | Printable handout

Library Anywhere

• Your library's on the phone! Library Anywhere takes any library catalog and makes it mobile, instantly.
• Custom Branded Apps: Get the power of Library Anywhere along with custom colors and branded apps, downloadable under your library's name in the app stores.
• Watch a screencast of Library Anywhere.
• » More information | Printable handout

Learn More

• Sign up for a webinar to learn more about all of our products.
• Let us know you're interested and we'll get back to you with more information.
• Want to know who we are? Half of LibraryThing employees are librarians!

Catalog enhancement package

• Similar books. 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 5 million ISBNs.
• Tag browsing. Enhance your catalog with the power and flexibility of searching and browsing your books by tags. LTFL's 93 million tags are hand-vetted by our librarians for quality — “American history” and “cyberpunk” are in, “read this summer” is out!
• Other editions and translations. Link related editions and translations of the same work."FRBR"-ize your catalog with a few lines of HTML. Includes all paper, audio, ebook and translations available from your library.
• Try it yourself at Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service.

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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.
• Works with all shelf-ordering systems.
• Try it yourself at the Chesapeake Public Library.

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Series and Awards enhancement package

• Series. Tap into over 50,000 series added by LibraryThing members and approved by staff—the most comprehensive and lovingly-maintained series coverage available. LTFL provides a short description of the series and any related series (for example, The Chronicles of Narnia in both chronological order and in publication order).
• Awards and honors. Includes over 25,000 different awards and honors, from the National Book Award and the Booker Prize to the Salon Book Award and New York Times Notable Book of the Year, or even Oprah's Book Club selections. Spotlight awards of that you'd like to highlight in your catalog.
• Try it yourself at Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library.

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Stack Map enhancement

• Stack Map directs your patrons to exactly where an item is held in your collection, with attractive, customizable maps.
• Stack Map adds a link (with an icon if you choose) to the call numbers in your catalog that opens a dynamic stack map with directions to that particular item.
• Each stack map also includes a QR code which a patron can scan to immediately pull up that map on their mobile phone, to help them get there.
• Try it yourself at Virginia Tech University Libraries.

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BookPsychic

• BookPsychic is your patrons’ crystal ball—a personal recommendations service from their library. The more they rate, the better their recommendations become; the more they discover, the more your collection circulates.
• BookPsychic always recommends items from your library’s collection—books, eBooks, audiobooks and DVDs.
• Integrates with Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, and LibraryThing.
• Patrons can log in to save and keep track of rated items.
• Embed recommendations in your OPAC. Launch from there or from your homepage.
• Patrons get new book alerts and recommendations when they visit.
• Links directly to your catalog pages.
• Give it a try! | Get the handout

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Book Display Widgets

• Book Display Widgets let you create virtual book displays for your library's homepage. Show off your library’s collection with eye-catching display widgets.
• Put them anywhere—on your library’s home page, blog or catalog.
• Fill with popular titles, new titles, series, awards or tags—it updates on its own. Or create your own list from a web page, RSS feed or list of ISBNs.
• Includes many attractive preset types, including animated carousels, bookshelves, grids and more; fully customizable with CSS.
• Create one widget or several. Track and report views and clicks.
• Links directly to your catalog pages.
• See a sampling of BookDisplay Widgets on our Showcase Page. | Get the handout.

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Sign up for a LibraryThing for Libraries demo

Sign up for a 30 minute session to learn and ask questions about LibraryThing for Libraries: Catalog Enrichment, BookPsychic, Book Display Widgets, and Library Anywhere!

Upcoming sessions

• Tuesday, June 18, 2pm Eastern
• Tuesday, June 25, 2pm Eastern
• Tuesday, July 2, 10am Eastern
• Tuesday, July 9, 2pm Eastern

» Click here to register

Search "LibraryThing" in the WebEx interface to see all scheduled webinars.

If none of the scheduled times work for you, please contact us to request a different session time.

Reviews enhancement

• Patron reviews. Let your patrons rate and review right in your catalog.
• Already full. Access over 1 million 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, allowing them to show their friends what they're reading at the library they love.
• Social. Patrons can sign in with and post their reviews to Facebook and Twitter.
• Try it yourself at Logan Library.

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