LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalogue their books. People catalogue together, so LibraryThing connects them with others who have the same books, it comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
As part of the LIANZA (Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) Conference held in Christchurch from the 12th to 14th October, we were lucky enought to talk to keynote speaker Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing.
Part One: An introduction to Tim and LibraryThing.
(6.2 MB, 6:38 minutes)
We discuss cataloguing and challenges for libraries with Tim Spalding in Part Two of our interview.
(6.3MB, 6:57 minutes)
We finish our interview with Tim Spalding of LibraryThing, talking about social networking and sharing, and different way of seeing the world. Tim on Facebook and social networking book applications: “To some extent they’re competitiors, to some extent they’re gateway drugs to LibraryThing”.
(6.17 minutes, 5.75 MB)
