Embedding LibraryThing widget

I went to dig out how to embed LibraryThing widget into here. I was thinking if I could embed the Delicious, I should be able to embed the LibraryThing too.

1. Find the widget tab or button on the top left corner of your LibraryThing homepage, as shown in the diagram below.

2. It was called "Make a LibraryThing Widget". In here, users can customise their own LibraryThing.

3. Refresh the page after you have selected your preferred setup. There is a refresh button on the bottom left side of that widget page.

4. Copy the html widget code as shown in the diagram below.

5. Back to your blogger Layout > Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript gadget

6. Paste the html widget code from LibraryThing into the content section.
7. Save it.

8. YourLibraryThing will be added to your blog like mine. (Please refer to the left hand column on my blog homepage, after my Delicious Bookmarks.)

Try it out!!!

My delicious and My LibraryThing

OO.. Talking about my delicious, I have used it since last year. What I did last week was I learned how to embed Delicious widget into this blog, please visit my previous post if you are interested to know how to do it.

I just checked my delicious site. I have 116 bookmarks and 110 tags. I put tags to help me to search them easily.


Here are my tags. The most popular tags that I use are:

• 1. libraries-reference-resources (61)
• 2. Facts-n-Figues (31)
• 3. Authoritative Resources (30)
• 4. Government Resources (28)
• 5. Search Tools (28)
• 6. Statistic (28)
• 7. Australian Government sites (27)
• 8. Virtual Reference (27)

The reason I used Delicious is preparing myself to be a reference librarian in the future. So, I started to set up this online web-based bookmarks to collect all the bookmarks (it is actually the URL of each related site) to help me to search and provide useful links easily for patrons in need. The benefit of using web-site social bookmark is, it allows me to access to these bookmarks wherever and whenever I have internet access. I don't have to store these bookmarks on my USB to carry them around. I think the bad site for this is, if Delicious's site went down or in maintenance or in repair one day, I won't be able to access this information.

As it claims in its about page, it is a free social bookmarking service. Users can discover, tag/categorise, save/store, manage and share web pages (URL). It is designed for dealing with web pages. It can be used on most of the browsers including: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and bookmaklet button on any browser. It also provides tools (linkrolls, tagrolls, network badges, blog posting) to enable users to link and display widget to individual blog.

I haven't used EndNote before. I wonder how similar and different in function from Delicious.

Now, here comes my LibraryThing, I didn't use it very much. This is my first impression of it: Wow!! too much information squeezed into one page, too complicated to use. I prefer to use Delicious than using LibraryThing. But they each serves different purposes. For Delicious, it allows me to save and manage bookmarks. For LibraryThing, it allows me to build my personal online library with my own collection. It took me longer time to learn how to use LiraryThing. Honestly, a lot of functions I still don't know how to use and no time to explore them.

On its homepage, it claims that it allows users to catalog books from Amazon, the Library of Congress and other world libraries. This means I can import (copy cataloguing) the related bibliographic record from the linked resources. I can share my own book review or view other people's comment on the same book that I intended to put on my personal library. It acts like a booklover community that I can find people with same interest and explore new books. It is available in many languages. Ha ha.... Yeah! I have to switch to chinese language to catalogue my chinese book.

Well, I am a bit ashamed to tell you all that, there are only 5 books on my LibraryThing. As a 'perfectionist', it normally took me ages to cataloge a book, find its book cover and fill in some information about it.


Here are some information about LibraryThing. It is an online personal library service that allows users to build own library, search for new books and publishers' first comment, a community of book reviews, and access books catalogue anywhere and anytime with internet. It doesn't need software to setup, but it only allows users to catalogue first 200 books for free. It charges really small amout of money $25 USD for cataloguing as many books as users want for a lifetime.

I reckon it is useful for librarians, especially small community libraries. It has a full powered cataloging application, and it allows editing, sorting, storing, managing of books in a collections. Small libraries can use it as a catalogue for their collection, according to LibraryThing. Its LibraryThing for Libraries application allows: tag-based browsing, book recommendations, ratings and reviews. It has widget to be used in personal blog too. (Great discovery today, I need to dig this out).

On its tools page, it has information about how to add Librarything widget to individual blog and mobile phone; adding chiclet; adding bookmaklet on Amazon; iPhone application; adding book-extension to Google Chrome; following LibraryThing on Twitter, Flickr, YouTube Channel, LiveJournal; import and export data to LibraryThing.

I was and still am overwhelmed by its extensive applications included. Too many information and too difficult to manage or explore it. That's why I never have time to add more books into my collection in LibraryThing. Shame! Shame!!

My Twitter 'goodies'!!

Here are some individual tweeters and organisations that I have been following for quite a while. I did a rough categorisation today, and this is my result.

I have:
22 librarian tweeters
16 innovators, leaders in web technology, social media tweeters
17 food bloggers
9 organisitional tweeters
4 coursemate tweeters
1 musicans tweeter
1 friend

Lirarian tweeters, innovators and leaders in web technology and social media, coursemates are all information and knowledge management related. I was surprised that I only have 1 friend tweeter, haha, which means all my other friends are not into twitter except me and this friend.

Another surprise was, the first tweeter I followed was an organisation, the ABC Classics FM. I think it was September last year, when the top 100 list of favourite symphony voted by Australians was released through Twitter and ABC Classics website. I used my mobile to access that list when I went travelling to uni. This was because by accessing Twitter, it is quick and straight to the result I need without using too many MB downloaded to my mobile. Therefore, that was the first time I realised the powerful of using twitter in promoting and even running big public events. It was like live, short news in 140 characters that you want to know about what had happened to certain event (in my case, which symphony was voted which place out of top 100).

In February this year, MSO (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) used twitter to promote and broadcast their live event, the famous free concerts opened to public at Sidney Myer Bowls. On 3rd concert, it was an MSO-tweeting night. The conductor Benjamin Northey actually posted live tweets (msointhebowl) pre, interval and post concert. During the interval, some interesting tweets were read to the public. In addition, live photos taken from that concert can be accessed through that twitter site too.

I like twitter!! ^_^