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Your Reviews- new feature

Written on: June 9th, 2009 by: in News, Reviews

We’ve blogged several times (here and here, for instance) about how Delaware Library patrons can write their own reviews and have their reviews display in the online catalog.

We recently implemented a categorization feature in Library Thing reviews- you can now check a box if you want your review to be featured in a specific category- At this point you can choose to select from “summer reading”, “teen books”, and “learning journeys” (the Division of Libraries Lifelong Learning project). This means that if you’re involved in a library program, such as a book group, all of the reviews for that program can be displayed together on a web page.

Take a look at any of the review links to see what it looks like. You’ll have to view the full catalog record for a book, click on “see reviews/add a review” and select “review this yourself” to see the new options.

While you’re there, write a review or two…

There aren’t any obvious limits on the amounts of categories that can be installed, so if you are interested in having your book club or a program at your library enabled as a review category, let me know. The output to your website, blog, or facebook account is a snippet of HTML that is easily installed and is available from the review module.