Thursday, July 02, 2009

Categories for your LTFL Reviews

Teen reviews from Seattle Public Library
We've a new feature to LibraryThing for Libraries, suggested by Lare over at the Seattle Public Library. He was looking for a way to show off just some of their reviews—reviews for their summer reading program.

Libraries can now add "categories" for their reviewers to check off—library book club books, Big Read books, reviews by library staff, etc. And the library can show off just one category of reviews in their LTFL blog widget.

Seattle has made blog-widget pages for their kids section, teen section, and even their adult section of the site. By categorizing the reviews into age-related groups, they can feature items in their catalog that would interest the patrons for each demographic.

We'll be releasing some more cool features at American Library Association meeting in Chicago next week.

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1 Comments:

Blogger Ingrid said...

The Reviews widget seems to populate with the 5 latest reviews from your library. Having whet my appetite, I as a review reader might think, "wow, this is cool, are there more?"

Is there any way to add a "more reviews" link to the widget which would pull up all the reviews from your library?

If it's there somewhere, I apologize - just missed it.

9/29/2009 9:42 AM  

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