TY - JOUR
AU - Ritchie, Anna
AB -  LibraryThing: An interview with Tim Spaldingby Anna Ritchie LibraryThing is an online application enabling users to catalogue, tag, search and sort their books, as well as making book recommendations based on the collective intelligence of other users' libraries. The site searches all five national Amazon sites and over 80 libraries worldwide that provide open access to their collections with the Z39.50 protocol (used in bibliographic software, like EndNote). LibraryThing is also a blossoming social network, connecting people with similar libraries and interests. Since launching in 2005, LibraryThing has accumulated over 619,000 users, with 36 million books catalogued and 47 million tags applied. Crossroads caught up with Tim Spalding, the founder and lead developer of LibraryThing, to find out more about the social network site for bibliophiles. Your background is in Classics. How did you go from studying Greek and Latin to being a web developer and web publisher? Actually, it's something of the reverse. I was a computer kid -- really the first generation of computer kids. My dad got an Apple II in 1979 or 1980 when I was eight. So I was programming very young. I focused on text adventures, so in a way I was 
TI - LibraryThing: an interview with Tim Spalding
JF - Crossroads
DO - 10.1145/1558897.1558899
DA - 2009-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/librarything-an-interview-with-tim-spalding-CcvU0N3N5T
SP - 3
VL - 15
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -