23 Thingers and other interested members of staff might be interested in the following training course:

Getting to Grips with LibraryThing
Event Code: BODL/CPD/LIB
Friday 22nd July 2011, Training Room 2, Osney One Building, 2.30pm-4.00pm

This session will introduce participants to the LibraryThing site and its main features. LibraryThing is a social cataloguing web application for storing and sharing book details. It also offers use of RSS feeds, tags, and much more.

Participants will have the opportunity to set up an account for themselves or their library, add some books to their catalogue, explore some of LibraryThing's additional services and learn how to embed it in other Web 2.0 and webpages.

See http://www.librarything.com/catalog/vhllib for an example. To book, email Staff Development.