Well, lo-and-behold it has to do with the reading of books--that sure made me happy! I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I prefer reading a book over reading social media 'things.' Does this make me anti-social? Well maybe before, but now that I found out about social reading....maybe not any more!
I must admit, I have never used Bibliocommons to do anything besides searching items and placing holds. So this is my first (real) exercise, not only social reading, but with Bibliocommons as well.
So I used my personal library card to log into Bibliocommons. I made a list called 'Currently Reading' and added A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin (since that is what I am reading currently)....and voilà, I made my first comment. *I already know I will like this!* Finally, I used this item again to complete Thing 10, I read through the comments and found the silliest one there (I like silliness).
From here....well onto Goodreads I suppose, which I have used in the past to look for things but have never partaken in what it offers.
Hey NB 23 Thingers
I am going to throw out a question that I would appreciate answers to! When we are looking at these comments and users, does this bring together all of Bibliocommons? I am wondering because I always assumed these users were those who belonged to our system, but the person I decided to follow belongs to Park Ridge Library (that does not exist in NB, if it does I don't know where I have been). Thanks!
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Hi, Hilary (and Fawkes)!
ReplyDeleteThe comments, tags, ratings, and other community activity that you see on the individual titles can be from ANY libraries that use BiblioCommons to power their online catalogue.
But the recent activity on the front page of our catalogue (Recent Lists, Recent Tags, Recently Rated, the Recently Reviewed Items carousel, etc.) are all from our NB libraries.
(It was a configurable option: we could have decided to display contributions from all over BiblioCommons there, but we made the choice to feature only NB contributions there.)
Social reading was actually a new term for me, too. After I started looking into it I found it is usually applied to reading ebooks and how you can see passages others have highlighted (there are whole apps for this, like Readmill or the option in Kindle), or how you can share articles you've read on the internet with others through facebook, twitter and google plus.
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