[Web4lib] Social Networking for Bookworms

[Carl Feucht]

A Wall Street Journal [online] article about the LibraryThing.com  
phenomenon
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115109622468789252- 
Bi4NTGvCqDjylkFiE9xJzb2LsYA_20070626.html

Quote: "With the help of tags, genres become more precise and  
refined: Where the science-fiction section of a bookstore is overly  
broad, LibraryThing users can draw distinctions between 'steampunk'  
and 'cyberpunk.' "

I wonder, would the sites' 'local book-recommendation engine' be a  
natural for a tie-in to the local public library New Items in  
circulation shelf?