LibraryThing founder Tim Spalding has announced:

Danbury Library in Danbury, Connecticut has become the first library in the world to put LibraryThing for Libraries on its live catalog.

All of the data which is driving the widgets that have been added to the Danbury OPAC, are derived from the preferences, actions, input and activities of users in LibraryThing.  An example of social networking having an outcome that can add value to a ‘traditional’ application.

Well done to the Danbury and LibraryThing folks. 

We are going to see more and more of this sort of thing.  Services provided form places ‘out in the Internet cloud’ adding value to local applications, or software as a service applications come to that.  – LibraryThing widgets in Aquabrowser or WorldCat Local anyone?

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