LibraryThing for Libraries

OPAC Enhancements

• LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) is a system of OPAC enhancements, designed to make your catalog more engaging and informative.
• Give your patrons exciting new content, including: Tags, Reviews, Similar Books, Shelf Browse, Series, Awards, Stack Maps, Lexile measures, and Other editions. Pick and choose which enhancements you'd like.
• Browse, search and discover your library's holdings in a new, powerful, and engaging way.
• Printable LTFL handout (PDF)

Library Anywhere

• Your library's on the phone! Library Anywhere takes any library catalog and makes it mobile, instantly.
• NEW: Custom Branded Apps! Get the power of Library Anywhere along with custom colors and branded apps, downloadable under your library's name in the app stores.
• Printable Library Anywhere handout (PDF)
• Watch a screencast of Library Anywhere

Learn More

• Sign up for a webinar to learn more about LibraryThing for Libraries and Library Anywhere, scheduled every Tuesday. On this WebEx page, search "LibraryThing" to register for scheduled webinars.
• Let us know you're interested and we'll get back to you with more information.
• Want to know who we are? Half of LibraryThing employees are librarians!

Reviews enhancement

• Patron reviews. Let your patrons rate and review right in your catalog.
• Already full. Access over 700,000 high-quality reviews from LibraryThing.com, share reviews with other LTFL libraries and let your patrons add their own.
• Widgets. Patrons get a first-of-its-kind library-branded blog widget, allowing them to show their friends what they're reading at the library they love.
• Try it yourself at Logan Library or any of the libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.

Catalog enhancements

• Book recommendations. Offer reader's advisory on the spot. Show high-quality "recommended" or "similar" books that can be found at your library—end dead-end searches! Recommendations cover more than 5 million ISBNs.
• Tag browsing. Enhance your catalog with the power and flexibility of searching and browsing your books by tags. LTFL provides over 84 million tags, vetted by librarians.
• Other editions and translations. Link related editions and translations of the same work. "FRBR"-ize your catalog with a few lines of HTML.
• Try it yourself at Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service or any of the libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.

Shelf Browse enhancement

• Shelf Browse uses your call numbers and ties them with cover images to give your patrons the context and serendipity of browsing a physical shelf.
• Includes a mini shelf-browser that sits on your detail pages, and a full-screen version, launched from the detail page.
• Use collections to limit Shelf Browse to a certain collection—YA books, AV, etc.
• If a book doesn't have a cover, we provide a default one, with the title and author printed over it.
• Try it yourself at Gold Coast Libraries or any of the libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.

Series and Awards enhancements

• Series. Draws from more than 50,000 different series. LTFL provides a short description of the series and any related series (for example, The Chronicles of Narnia in both chronological order and in publication order).
• Awards and honors. Includes over 25,000 different awards and honors, from the National Book Award and the Booker Prize to the Salon Book Award and New York Times Notable Book of the Year, or even Oprah's Book Club selections. Spotlight awards that you'd like to highlight in your catalog
• Try it yourself at Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library or any of the libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.

Stack Map enhancement

• Stack Map lets you see exactly where a book is physically located in the library.
• Stack Map adds a link (with an icon if you choose) to the call numbers in your catalog that opens a dynamic stack map with directions to that particular item.
• Each stack map also includes a QR code which a patron can scan to immediately pull up that map on their mobile phone, to help them get there.
• Try it yourself at Point Park University Library or any of the libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries.