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Hey, you got LibraryThing in my catalog!

Maybe you've noticed some changes to our library catalog. If you haven't you should check it out!

A while back, we mentioned LibraryThing as a fun site for enthusiastic readers. People who love books love LibraryThing and LibraryThing loves its members.

Well, LibraryThing also loves libraries! Danbury Public Library is the first library to add LibraryThing for Libraries to its catalog.

What does this mean for you? When you're looking at many of the books in our catalog, you will see more information then you did before:

Other Editions and Translations lists the other versions of a book that we have in our library.

Similar Books are titles from LibraryThing's Suggestor; it's a list of books commonly owned by people who own the book you're looking at.

Tags are words used by regular people on LibraryThing to describe books.


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When you click on a tag, a new feature opens up. The tag browser lets you look at other books in the library that have the same tag. You can search for books by tag and if you click on a title, the tag browser closes and you can see that title in the library catalog.

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We think this is a great addition to our library, but we want to know what you think. If you're a LibraryThing user, leave us a link to your library in the comments!

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