Library Thing is easy to use and very cool

LibraryThing is such a neat site for readers and libraries. Giving each person the ability to add 200 books for free is very generous. I think this goes to show that the public has certain needs that maybe our catalog records don't currently provide. Tagging the books with terms that they would use to find them vs. MARC records with the structured subject terminology will be an interesting thing to monitor in the future. LibraryThing for libraries will probably be the answer to that tug-of-war: merging the two together--MARC and tagging in our PACs.