Like any great social web app, there are many subtle layers yet to be discovered, but here briefly is what Library Thing does- it makes it drop dead easy to create your virtual bookshelf, all the books you want to manage, search, tag, share.

• Have your school librarian add a few books to a school account’s catalog to highlight new books in your library

• Have the students in your class add their latest reading materials to a classroom account

• Link up with other teachers, classrooms or schools in your district, division, province, state, country or the world to share your top five, ten or more book titles

• Create a group account so that your fellow administrators, teachers. etc. can create a shared resource listing. Then you can have easy access to the shared materials that are brought forward at meetings, in-services, etc.

many thanks to IMYM

Social Networking Tool for Your Reading Materials – LibraryThing