How good is it?

LibraryThing for Libraries draws on LibraryThing.com, the social book cataloging website. Here are some of the straight stats. LibraryThing for Libraries enhances:

Catalog Enhancements package

75% or more of your ISBNs
recommendations covering 656,000 ISBNs
56 million tags (vetted by LibraryThing)
other editions and translations covering 275,000 ISBNs

Reviews Enhancements package

350,000 reviews from LibraryThing
reviews covering 450,000 ISBNs

"The recommendations one gets here beat anything I could find on Novelist (my favorite authors are too obscure) or Amazon... Instead, LibraryThing data ... provides better fodder for a reader's advisory tool."

Librarian blogger "Mikysa 2.0", Charlotte, NC

"[T]he creator's most interesting claim is that he can FRBRize your catalog by linking different editions of a work. (something that we have been BEGGING our ILS vendors to do for us)."

PALS Plus Blog

"I've seen the future of online catalogs, and its name is LibraryThing"

Steve Cohen, Public Libraries magazine (March/April 2006)

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