What does LibraryThing for Libraries do?
LTFL has several OPAC-boosting products: Catalog Enhancements package This provides more valuable data for each book, and more points for searching. All of the search information – recommended titles, similar editions, tag search results – relate back to what can be found in your OPAC. • Book recommendations. High-quality “recommended” or “similar” books, like reader’s advisory that points to books available in your library. • Tag-based discovery. Tag clouds for books, and tag-based search and discovery, drawn from the 65 million tags added by LibraryThing members. • Other editions and translations. Provides links to bib pages of other editions and translations of a work that can be found an your library. (This works much like the FRBR model.) Reviews Enhancement package • Patron reviews. Let your patrons rate and review right in your catalog. • Already full. Comes with over 450,000 high-quality reviews from LibraryThing.com. • Widgets. Patrons can show off reviews and their library wi
LTFL has several OPAC-boosting products: Catalog Enhancements package This provides more valuable data for each book, and more points for searching. All of the search information – recommended titles, similar editions, tag search results – relate back to what can be found in your OPAC. • Book recommendations. High-quality “recommended” or “similar” books, like reader’s advisory that points to books available in your library. • Tag-based discovery. Tag clouds for books, and tag-based search and discovery, drawn from the 75 million tags added by LibraryThing members. • Other editions and translations. Provides links to bib pages of other editions and translations of a work that can be found an your library. (This works much like the FRBR model.) Reviews Enhancement package • Patron reviews. Let your patrons rate and review right in your catalog. • Already full. Comes with over 600,000 high-quality reviews from LibraryThing.com. • Widgets. Patrons can show off reviews and their library wi