Give It up | Daniel Boone Regional Library | BiblioCommons

Give It up | Daniel Boone Regional Library | BiblioCommons

Here's my practice using the sharing tools on the new catalog. This is the book I'm currently reading. The author spends a year giving up one thing for a month. It's not so terribly inspiring for me since it seems to be aimed at people who are living a Sex in the City lifestyle. Most of the things she's given up so far are either things I don't do in the first place (daily meeting with friends and associates for "drinks") or things that wouldn't affect me that terribly if I gave them up (my cell phone.)

So awesome!

I am totally in love with bibliocommons! I don't know if I can choose a favorite part, so I'll just start rambling about all of it.

The mark for later function is wonderful. My list already has a dozen things on it. Can't wait to read 'em all!

The catalog shows you other lists that the book your looking at has been saved to. Therefore, you can quickly see what other books in the same vein people think are good stuff. This can also help you find people with similar reading interests that you might want to follow. I understand that this will get recommendations to appear on your page based on what the people you follow are reading. I haven't found anybody to follow yet, though, so I haven't tested that part out first hand.

I read Lauren's blog on this subject and I have to agree with her that I'm a little weirded out by having everything you rate, comment on, tag, etc. saved to your public collection. I didn't really get that when I started starring and tagging things. Hello, my name is Heather and I'm a pagan. Please don't judge me because I gave 5 stars to a book on witchcraft. :-)

Overall, I'm so excited about this awesome new tool and I think our patrons are going to love it, too.

RSS Feeds

Here are the three feeds I subscribed to. The first two are both from the Library Journal. I figure they might help with reader's advisory type stuff and with selecting books for my homebound folks. The third is Awful Library Books because I like funny stuff. :)


Library Journal - Genre Fiction Reviews
Library Journal - Prepub Alerts
Awful Library Books