TinyCat Turns Five Next Month: Let's Celebrate!

April 5th marks five years since TinyCat’s official release, and the years have flown by for all of us at LibraryThing! We have loved helping thousands of educational, community, and religious libraries worldwide get their catalogs online with an easy management system, and we're excited to watch TinyCat grow through the next five years.

On the horizon: Our biggest goal for improving the TinyCat experience this year is finishing our major site redesign for the cataloging side of the system, LibraryThing, a project known more familiarly as "LT2". With LT2, you’ll be able to manage your catalog in a mobile-friendly and more accessible way. It will also make future updates easier for us, meaning even more improvements over time. You can join our ongoing discussions and explore our latest releases by browsing our New Features Group.



To celebrate our fifth birthday, we’re giving away five gorgeous TinyCat totes (in blue or red) to TinyCat subscribers during the month of April.

Here’s how to qualify:

• Have a current TinyCat subscription.


• Share your TinyCat library in a Tweet anytime through the end of April.


• Make sure to tag us TinyCat_lib and add the #tinycatlibraries hashtag to your post.


• The giveaway ends on April 30, so be sure to get your Tweet out before then.


• We’ll call out five random tote winners from our TinyCat_lib account throughout the next month. If we don’t call you out for the first (or second, or third, etc.) tote, you can share your library again to re-enter!

We’re also putting a sale on all of our CueCat scanners and barcode labels in the Store for the month of April, so be sure to stock up: https://www.librarything.com/more/store.

Feel free to share some of your own happy birthday thoughts in this thread: we love cat photos! And thank you all for another great year.

It's TinyCat's official birthday today, yay!

I'll be sharing some of the cats of LibraryThing below for fun (and maybe some pups too), let's see everyone else's furry friends here!

To start off, I'll share our latest staff member Lucy's (knerd.knitter's) kitties, meet Kupo and Lilith! Celebrating with party hats and CueCats.

megbmore's kitties are also celebrating with CueCats and party hats... meet Cleo and Polly!

Head of LibraryThing for Libraries ablachly's kitties are aptly named: Bean (who is tiny) and Puck (who has very spritely energy) are celebrating TinyCat's birthday with cake and flowers.

Our final "cats of LibraryThing" post for today goes to kristilabrie's late, beloved Maine Coons Lucy (aka Lucent) and Stella, the best floofy pair of pals!

Wonderful kitties. Bubi says hi!

>1 kristilabrie:

Share your TinyCat library in a Tweet anytime through the end of April.

My cats meow, they don't tweet.

(Seriously, unfair to folks who don't use social media.)

ETA: How the heck did you get Kupo to sit still with that hat on his head?

>7 lilithcat: LOL; that's a good question; probably because he's old, so he doesn't have the energy to fight me; he's just like, "fine, whatever." : )

>6 SandraArdnas: Adorable!

>7 lilithcat: Sorry, it's also a giveaway for subscribers which wouldn't apply here. Maybe I'll be able to run another type of giveaway later this year, for everyone, that doesn't involve social. I'll keep that in mind.