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DOING THAT LIBRARYTHING
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Library Administrator's Digest
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June 1, 2008
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Have you ever discovered that you have more books than you have space at home? Are they in random order or (like me) in order by what you have read most recently? I looked at my boxes of books and realized that I needed help in making sense out of what I own. This gave me good reason to try out LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com), the love child of Melvil Dewey and Web 2.0. At its most basic, it enables users to build their own Web-based catalog, using information from Amazon.com, the Library of Congress and over 40 ...
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