More Added Features in the Catalog!

Back in January we announced that the Libraries had subscribed to a service that provides full-color cover images and links to author notes, fiction and biography profiles (see this announcement). Now we've added more features: through a service called LibraryThing for Libraries some records have these additional fields:

• Similar books. "Recommended reads" coming from data collected in LibraryThing, reputedly the world's largest personal- and social-cataloging site, whose members have added over 24 million books since 2005.
• Other editions and translations.  Links to other editions and translations of a work coming from data in LibraryThing.
• Tags.  Tag clouds for books, and tag-based search and discovery, drawing on the over 31 million tags added by LibraryThing members.

About 38% of the records for books in the catalog now have this added content. LibraryThing continues to add features; in the future you may be able to add your own tags to catalog records, contribute your own reviews, and add ratings to books.