LibraryThing - Wikipedia LibraryThing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search LibraryThing Type of site Catalog and community Owner Tim Spalding (majority) AbeBooks CIG Created by Tim Spalding URL www.librarything.com Registration Free Launched August 29, 2005; 15 years ago (2005-08-29) Current status Active LibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by authors, individuals, libraries, and publishers. Based in Portland, Maine,[1] LibraryThing was developed by Tim Spalding and went live on August 29, 2005. As of June 2020, it has 2,375,000 users and over 135 million books catalogued.[2] Contents 1 Features 1.1 Social features 1.2 TinyCat 2 Ownership 3 Publicity 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Features[edit] The primary feature of LibraryThing ("LT") is the cataloging of books, movies, music and other media by importing data from libraries through Z39.50 connections and from six Amazon.com stores. Library sources supply Dublin Core and MARC records to LT; users can import information from over 2000 libraries, including the British Library, Canadian National Catalogue, Library of Congress, National Library of Australia, and Yale University.[3] Should a record not be available from any of these sources, it is also possible to input the book information manually via a blank form.[4] Each work may comprise different editions, translations, printings, audio versions, etc. Members are encouraged to add publicly visible reviews, descriptions, Common Knowledge and other information about a work; ratings, collections and tags help categorization. Discussion in the forums is also encouraged. Items are classified using the Melvil Decimal System, based on the out-of-copyright 1922 edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification with modifications for standard spelling of division names (as opposed to the original names, which were spelled in accordance with Dewey's advocated spelling reforms), and modernised terminology.[5] Social features[edit] LibraryThing's social features have been compared to bookmark manager Del.icio.us[6] and the collaborative music service Last.fm.[7] Similar book cataloging sites include aNobii, BookLikes, Goodreads, Libib, Shelfari [now merged with Goodreads], and weRead.[8] TinyCat[edit] In 2016 LibraryThing launched TinyCat, an OPAC designed for the cataloging and circulation of libraries of up to 20,000 items.[9] TinyCat is marketed towards small independent libraries, such as schools, community centers, religious institutions, academic departments, as well as individuals.[10] Ownership[edit] LibraryThing is majority owned by founder Tim Spalding.[11] Online bookseller AbeBooks (now owned by Amazon) bought a 40% share in LibraryThing in May 2006 for an undisclosed sum.[12] In January 2009, Cambridge Information Group acquired a minority stake in the company, and their subsidiary Bowker became the official distributor to libraries.[11] Publicity[edit] At the end of June 2006, LibraryThing was subject to the Slashdot effect from a Wall Street Journal article.[13] The site's developers added servers to compensate for the increased traffic. In December of the same year, the site received yet more attention from Slashdot over its UnSuggester feature, which draws suggestions from books least likely to appear in the same catalog as a given book.[14] See also[edit] Bibliographic database Collective intelligence Crowdsourcing Enterprise bookmarking Folksonomy List of social networking services Ontology OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) Semantic similarity Tags Thesaurus Virtual community Weak ontology References[edit] ^ "LibraryThing – Send us money". ^ "Zeitgeist Overview". LibraryThing. Retrieved 2019-06-30. ^ "Add books to your library". Retrieved 2008-06-03. ^ "Manual Entry". Retrieved 2010-10-13. ^ Spalding, Tim (19 August 2010). "Introducing the "Melvil Decimal System"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 23 July 2016. ^ Regan, Jim (2005-11-09). "Do your own LibraryThing". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2007-03-13. ^ Bain, Alistair (2007-04-28). "LibraryThing". Desert of Zin. Archived from the original on 2011-11-03. Retrieved 2007-06-20. ^ Woodroof, Martha (2008-03-20). "Web Sites Let Bibliophiles Share Books Virtually". NPR. Retrieved 2009-05-14. ^ "Introducing TinyCat: The OPAC for Tiny Libraries". LibraryThing Blog. 5 April 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016. ^ Klein, Loren (19 August 2015). "New LibraryThing OPAC, TinyCat, Announced". Public Libraries Online. Retrieved 26 June 2016. ^ a b "CIG Acquires Minority Stake in LibraryThing; Bowker to Distribute to Libraries". Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2013. ^ Davies, Richard (2006-05-16). "ABEBOOKS.COM ACQUIRES MAJOR STAKE IN LIBRARYTHING.COM – A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE FOR BIBLIOPHILES". AbeBooks.com. ^ Rutkoff, Aaron (2006-06-27). "Social Networking for Bookworms". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2006-12-15. ^ "Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want". Slashdot. 2006-12-04. Retrieved 2006-12-15. Further reading[edit] Wenzler, J. LibraryThing and the library catalog: adding collective intelligence to the OPAC. A Workshop on Next Generation Libraries. San Francisco State University CARL NITIG; September 7, 2007. Hvass, Anna (2008). Cataloging with LibraryThing: as easy as 1,2,3! Library Hi Tech News, 25 (10), pp. 5–7. 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