{"id":1105,"date":"2005-09-12T22:14:18","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T06:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/09\/12\/library-nerd\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:25:39","slug":"library-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/09\/12\/library-nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Nerd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was contacted by Tim Spalding, developer of a new web interface for book cataloging called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">LibraryThing<\/a>. I checked it out. What a creative idea! Just the thing for us librarian souls. It extracts data from the Library of Congress catalog. You can share your catalog or keep it private. And there&#8217;s a widget (ooo, a widget!) to put on your blog to show people what you&#8217;re reading.<\/p>\n<p>I currently use a free computer software called <a href=\"http:\/\/books.aetherial.net\/\">Books for Mac OS X<\/a>, and it does a nice job of helping me keep track of what I&#8217;ve lent and borrowed. What appeals about LibraryThing is the potential for finding what others are reading by using search tags. I&#8217;m also drawn to it because I&#8217;m a nerd for all things books and libraries. <\/p>\n<p>My only concern with LibraryThing is whether it will exist for the duration. Online applications tend to come and go. <a href=\"http:\/\/allconsuming.net\/\">AllConsuming<\/a> morphed and I lost all that I&#8217;d previously input. I&#8217;m not eager to waste effort. We&#8217;ll see. My library currently has 750+ titles. If Tim finds a way to make it possible to import my titles from my current software, then I may just sign up. <\/p>\n<p>Update, 12:06 a.m. 9\/13: This is addictive! I started adding my current reads and from there it sucked me in. Whoosh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was contacted by Tim Spalding, developer of a new web interface for book cataloging called LibraryThing. I checked it out. What a creative idea! Just the thing for us librarian souls. It extracts data from the Library of Congress catalog. You can share your catalog or keep it private. And there&#8217;s a widget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10933,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/10933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}