Top library event systems?

[Sutherland, Paul]

Hi
 
we use Trumba
http://www.trumba.com/connect/default.aspx
 
see
http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Events/
 
/paul

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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
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Sent: Friday, 30 November 2012 6:18 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Top library event systems?


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-lib
rarything-local-and-give-books-to-needy-readers/

Best,
Tim


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