Top library event systems?

[Coral Sheldon-Hess]

Hi, Tim!

We're currently in transition, having used a combination of phpScheduleIt
(internally) and a customized Wordpress plugin (no joke--that one wasn't my
fault), currently using phpScheduleIt (internally) and a Google Calendar
(externally), and possibly in the future using LibCal for both internal and
external. I know LibCal exports to other calendar formats, but I haven't
given it a try, myself.

Important events that we think will interest our community are also pushed
out to Facebook.

I hope that helps!

--
Coral Sheldon-Hess
http://sheldon-hess.org/coral
@web_librarian


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:

> Dear Web4Lib-ers,
>
> I need help identifying the top library event systems.
>
> * Who are the top competitors? I don't care what's best, but just what's
> popular.
> * Has anyone worked with the systems on a technical level, eg., moving it
> to other calendar systems, etc.?
>
> ## Background:
>
> LibraryThing has decided to expand our "LibraryThing Local" system (
> http://www.librarything.com/local ), starting with our events coverage,
> by scraping and other parsing. So far we're processing data from all of the
> "Big Six" publishers, a bunch of smaller publishers, Barnes and Noble,
> IndieBound, Waterstones, Powell's, etc. Members have also been adding
> events—we've got more than 10,000 events coming up in the next few months.
> This is the worst time of the year for events, so that's a lot.
>
> But we're missing libraries, except what members have been adding. Many of
> the big city libraries have fans adding all the events by hand—but it's a
> drop in the bucket.
>
> Incidentally, if you're interested in adding your library's events to
> LibraryThing, LibraryThing is current lgiving money to charity for every
> event added, manually through an event-adding API. See the blog post:
> http://www.librarything.com/blogs/librarything/2012/11/add-events-to-librarything-local-and-give-books-to-needy-readers/
>
> Best,
> Tim
>
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