Week 5 Assignment: CD 2.0

Library Thing:
Well I finally used this! after hearing about it for years.

Things I liked about Library Thing:

• fun to find other people who've also read the book
• quick way to catalogue a home library: I liked how you could quickly re-use someone else's record

Things I didn't like

• once I found people who'd read my book, I wanted to see what they thought about it, but I found it very clunky to do this. Maybe I didn't do it right? It took me about six clicks to go see how they had catalogued the book. (Here is what I did: find members -- search member library (but some had 1500 books!!!), and I kept ending up on my own page.:-(
• For the initial book record, I kept having to change my search where? criteria. I wish LT could have searched multiple sources at once.

I like the list-making possibilities more in Bibliocommons, I think. However, I haven't been "inside" Bibliocommons yet, so maybe it's only lookin' good from the outside???

Facebook: The GREEN page was downright scary.

• Someone hacked their website http://www.greenbecauseyoucan.com/
• This happened three weeks ago
• But no one from the page/group did anything about it.
• Good thing: lots of discussion going on. If people were this passionate about our library I'd be happy.
• Bad thing: overwhelming to try to figure out what's going on. Seems to be a long conversation between a couple of virulent greens and anti-greens.
• I can't figure out how to interact with this page.
• Oh, I guess you have to be logged in to do that. But it didn't tell me.