I've headed over to Library Thing and had a bit of a play. I haven't catalogued many of the books I own or have read, figure I'd be here for months. If I remember to use it, I think it would be most helpful for keeping track of all the books I keep meaning to read as I could then search by tags etc rather than having a stab in the dark when I go to read them 2 years later.
As for our customers, we have a lot of customers who have notebooks or exercise books catalogued by author, series etc with their own markings for the ones they've requested, reserved and so on. While I'm sure they could benefit, it would take a lot of effort to convert them from pen and paper to keyboard and mouse.
From a staffing perspective, I quite like the suggester/unsuggester tool. Everyone who has ever worked in a library knows how difficult it is to answer the old classic "Can you recommend a good book?". Maybe it should be added to our Customer Service Desk shortcuts.....
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