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Information Today
February 6, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Social Review Site Goodreads Dumps Amazon's Metadata Goodreads is now using metadata from Ingram, "the largest wholesaler of books in the U.S.," according to Goodreads founder and CEO Otis Chandler. "Our agreement with them will ensure accurate and reliable information for the foreseeable future."   |
Information Today
April 11, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon Buys Goodreads to Bolster Its Advice Portfolio With links to more than 68,000 authors and more than 30,000 book clubs, Goodreads has become the clear leader for peer recommendations and social cataloging in its 6 years of existence. |
Information Today
July 8, 2013 |
Going Social: Top Apps for Best Recommended Reads The apps listed here are all free, whether you opt to find a title to enjoy on your own or want to join a reading community to share your thoughts about your favorite bestseller with a virtual book club. |
Information Today
July 9, 2012 |
NoveList Select Gains New Features and Options New features improve the user experience, as well as offer new upgrade options, including book jackets, professional book reviews, sample excerpts, tables of contents, and more, from Content Cafe -- a database offered by Baker & Taylor. |
Information Today
July 14, 2008 |
AquaBrowser Adds Social Networking Tools New features boost the existing AquaBrowser social networking experience and are designed to create a true global community for library users. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011 |
Goodreads Ratings and Reviews to be Added to NoveList Products The agreement leverages the content of Goodreads, the largest social network for readers, adding additional content to the popular readers' advisory service. |
Search Engine Watch
May 25, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Launches Personalized Movie Recommendations Looking for a film recommendation based on your own personal tastes and interests? Check out Yahoo's new personalized movie recommendations. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Srikanth Srinivasa |
Amazon Partners With Facebook to Make Online Shopping More Social Amazon is now offering its shoppers a connect with Facebook accounts that allows movement of Facebook friends to Amazon to get recommendations from friends on what to buy. |
Information Today
February 11, 2013 |
E-resource Recommendations Added to NoveList Select The recommendations guide library patrons to relevant e-resources -- that may have been hidden or hard to find -- directly from catalog records. |
Information Today
March 4, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebook Subscription Services Here's the scoop on five popular ebook subscription services, including a comparison chart for quick reference. |
Information Today
February 25, 2013 |
NoveList Select's ILS Partnerships Now Include Evergreen NoveList, a division of EBSCO Publishing, is announcing a new ILS integration with NoveList Select, its catalog enrichment resource. |
InternetNews
May 25, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Movies Get Personal Yahoo Movies adds ChoiceStream's personalization tools to its entertainment channel. |
Information Today
May 15, 2014 |
NoveList Plus Incorporates Audiobook Recommendations It used to be such a challenge for librarians to answer patron questions about audiobooks. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Amazon's Digital Library Speaks Volumes Amazon's media library function seems like it could be a stealthy success. Investors, people have underestimated Amazon before, and it wouldn't be the first time this e-commerce giant had the last laugh. |
Information Today
June 11, 2015 |
Ratings and Reviews Come to Boopsie Mobile App Boopsie for Libraries will add rating and reviewing capabilities to its mobile platform. |
Entrepreneur
August 2003
Melissa Campanelli |
The Ratings Game Many sites allow visitors to review and rate the products they're selling. Should you follow suit? |
Information Today
December 17, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
libib Helps Small Libraries Manage Their Collections libib can keep track of books, movies, music, and video games in up to 100 separate library lists. It's available for personal or small organizational libraries as a website or app. |
Information Today
October 6, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Four Discovery Services to Watch It's time for a look at some tools that may not be as well-known as the previously covered EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo, Summon, and WorldCat Discovery Services. |
Entrepreneur
August 2010
Jason Ankeny |
The Likes of You GetGlue recommends movies, music and books based on what already floats your boat. |
Information Today
February 2, 2009 |
EBSCO to Distribute ConsumerReports.org Subscriptions to Libraries Consumers Union and EBSCO Publishing announced a distribution partnership allowing libraries to subscribe to ConsumerReports.org for a fixed annual subscription. |
Information Today
August 7, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Amazon Library Processing Prepares Books for Library Shelves Now libraries can order books and other media, such as CDs and DVDs, from Amazon and receive the material ready to go from box to shelf. |
InternetNews
September 9, 2009 |
Facebook's on the Mobile Move Facebook is aggressively looking to extend its wireless reach. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Amazon and Facebook: A Mediocre Marriage at Best This could have been the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Instead, it's a missed opportunity that cuts both ways. |
Information Today
September 17, 2015 |
Boopsie Reviews Its 2Q 2015 Accomplishments Boopsie for Libraries shared its most recent milestones: It has signed 12 new library clients in multiple library markets. |
Information Today
November 21, 2013 |
Facebook App Enables Library OPAC Searches Syndetic Solutions, ProQuest's OPAC and discovery layer enrichment tool, introduced a free Facebook app for its library subscribers. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2011
Wade Roush |
What the Changes at Facebook Mean for Apple and Google -- and You Turning the social network inside out. |
Information Today
November 15, 2012 |
OCLC Expands Partnership With Goodreads OCLC announced that it expanded its strategic partnership with Goodreads, which claims to be the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, to help provide greater visibility for all libraries. |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Gets Social Booklovers have another reason to warm up to Amazon.com. The world's leading online retailer is buying Shelfari, a social network for reading fans, for undisclosed terms. |
D-Lib
December 2006
Whitney & Schiff |
The Melvyl Recommender Project: Developing Library Recommendation Services The Melvyl Recommender Project is exploring methods and feasibility of closing the gap between features that library patrons want and have come to expect from internet search engines and what libraries are currently equipped to deliver. |
Information Today
December 10, 2007
Barbara Quint |
The Library of Congress and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Working Group Report The recommendations of the report seem predominantly focused on book cataloging and, in that regard, how to curtail the Library of Congress' role in the future. |
Information Today
November 6, 2014 |
LibraryThing for Libraries Boosts Discovery Books in a library's holdings will now offer recommendations for titles by the same author, similar authors and genres, and other specifications. |
Information Today
July 7, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2011
Jon Schepke |
Ratings & Reviews: 5 Strategies for Local Businesses Ratings and reviews are essential to local businesses. They help by differentiating products and services, improving search engine rankings, and driving free web traffic. |
Information Today
January 29, 2009
Marydee Ojala |
LibraryThing Finds a `CIGnificant' Other Cambridge Information Group, the family-owned management and investment company that owns ProQuest, Dialog, AquaBrowser, Syndetic Solutions, and Bowker, has acquired a minority interest in LibraryThing |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2004
Marko Djuranovic |
The Two Million Man Moat Netflix may have an overlooked competitive advantage in the DVD rental business. |
Information Today
April 21, 2011 |
Export Your LibraryThing Library as MARC Records LibraryThing has just released a feature that will allow users to export their LibraryThing library as MARC (USMARC, UTF-8) records. Users will find the Export as MARC option now on the Import/Export page, accessible via the "More" tab when they are logged in. |
Information Today
May 10, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Open Library Upgrading Its Service The grand goal of the Open Library is "to provide a page on the web for every book ever published," according to its FAQ. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2009
Rex Moore |
Is an App Store Next for E-Readers? Getting a read on the next big thing in e-books. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2008
Tim Beyers |
3 Questions for Jeff Bezos Why would Amazon.com want a piece of social networking site Twitter? |
Information Today
August 14, 2008 |
LibraryThing Offers One Million Free Book Covers LibraryThing, the social network book cataloging site, is now offering 1 million book covers free for libraries to enhance their online public accessing catalogs. |
Information Today
August 26, 2014 |
Plum Analytics Adds Goodreads Metrics Plum Analytics expanded its support for books to include metrics from Goodreads. |
Information Today
January 6, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Review of the Year 2010 and Trends Watch 2011 While some say 2010 was the year of the app, there's also a very strong case that it could be considered the year of the ebook. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Kate Rockwood |
Fast Talk: The Virtual Book Clubber Josh Hug, 30, cofounded Shelfari, a social-networking site devoted to generating conversations and recommendations around books. Amazon acquired the bibliophilic company in the summer of 2008. |
Information Today
December 16, 2010
Nancy Herther |
Google's eBookstore Takes Ebooks to the Next Level On Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, after months of anticipation, Google officially launched Google eBookstore (previously called Google Editions), marking an important milestone for the ebook industry. |
Searcher
October 2010
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Smart Generosity My ebooks should have an afterlife. After all, I've paid about the same price as a good paperback, but not only can't I give it to a library -- or anyone else in most cases -- I'm still looking for instructions on how to delete a book entry from my Kindle or iBook "libraries." |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2010
Darleen Hartley |
Android's Kindle Adds Amazon's Shelfari The bookwise social-networking service makes its way to the Google platform, adding even more social-networking features to the e-reader. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Knight et al. |
Automating Library Stock Ordering from Reading Lists This paper discusses taking data from the reading list system, and other library data sources, and using it in an automated system to make book purchasing suggestions to ease this task for library staff. |
Information Today
March 2008
Thomas Krivak |
Facebook 101: Ten Things You Need to Know About Facebook Nowadays, more businesses and corporate folks are joining Facebook. Advertisers are even turning their attention to this growing market. So what should you know about Facebook? Here are 10 things for starters. |
CRM
August 26, 2013 |
Empathica Granted Patent for GoRecommend Social Media Advocacy Solution GoRecommend identifies and mobilizes brand advocates to amplify online recommendations. |
