Re: [CODE4LIB] Book Club software tools and approaches?
You may want to check out BookGobble.com I wrote about the founder, Mira Wilczek, last year: http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2013/09/booksmashs-lust-o-meter-shows-how.html eric On Jul 1, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Jon Gorman wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been musing on software tools that might be useful for book clubs. > > I'm not necessarily looking for a turnkey solution explicitly geared > towards book clubs, but more a thought experiment of what tools might be > useful for an ongoing "in the real world" book club. > > Some needs that software tools might help keep track of: > > * A way to vote for what books to read next > * Schedule of times > * An estimator calculator (reading level of book + length of book, > estimated sessions). > * way to add notes or linked materials > * online discussions to supplement in person meetings > * glossary/dictionary functionality perhaps? > > In my own thoughts some of the online services like GoodReads, Shelfari and > LibraryThing seems to at least offer some tools and information. A system > that I haven't had a chance to explore enough, Loomis, might help with the > decision making parts. > > > Part of the impetus for this is I've recently joined a technical book club. > At the moment we're using a wiki, which is working fine, but in particular > the voting is clunky. I could picture something where members can add/link > to something like librarything in a list and the book with the most votes > (w/ ties being broken randomly) is the next book in the queue. > > So anyone out there already doing something similar? Thoughts? Ideas? > > Jon Gorman > University of Illinois
Re: [CODE4LIB] Book Club software tools and approaches?
I like the Google Drive Form idea. MIght be able to do that or some variation. Thanks! Jon Gorman On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Matt Cordial wrote: > We've been using a G+ community for event announcements and discussions. > It's been fine. We're pretty small so we don't need a lot in terms of > management. > > https://plus.google.com/communities/113393567679559625537 > > For voting, we've used both a Google Drive Form and simply a discussion > thread. > > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Jon Gorman > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've been musing on software tools that might be useful for book clubs. > > > > I'm not necessarily looking for a turnkey solution explicitly geared > > towards book clubs, but more a thought experiment of what tools might be > > useful for an ongoing "in the real world" book club. > > > > Some needs that software tools might help keep track of: > > > > * A way to vote for what books to read next > > * Schedule of times > > * An estimator calculator (reading level of book + length of book, > > estimated sessions). > > * way to add notes or linked materials > > * online discussions to supplement in person meetings > > * glossary/dictionary functionality perhaps? > > > > In my own thoughts some of the online services like GoodReads, Shelfari > and > > LibraryThing seems to at least offer some tools and information. A system > > that I haven't had a chance to explore enough, Loomis, might help with > the > > decision making parts. > > > > > > Part of the impetus for this is I've recently joined a technical book > club. > > At the moment we're using a wiki, which is working fine, but in > particular > > the voting is clunky. I could picture something where members can > add/link > > to something like librarything in a list and the book with the most votes > > (w/ ties being broken randomly) is the next book in the queue. > > > > So anyone out there already doing something similar? Thoughts? Ideas? > > > > Jon Gorman > > University of Illinois > > >
Re: [CODE4LIB] Book Club software tools and approaches?
We've been using a G+ community for event announcements and discussions. It's been fine. We're pretty small so we don't need a lot in terms of management. https://plus.google.com/communities/113393567679559625537 For voting, we've used both a Google Drive Form and simply a discussion thread. On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Jon Gorman wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been musing on software tools that might be useful for book clubs. > > I'm not necessarily looking for a turnkey solution explicitly geared > towards book clubs, but more a thought experiment of what tools might be > useful for an ongoing "in the real world" book club. > > Some needs that software tools might help keep track of: > > * A way to vote for what books to read next > * Schedule of times > * An estimator calculator (reading level of book + length of book, > estimated sessions). > * way to add notes or linked materials > * online discussions to supplement in person meetings > * glossary/dictionary functionality perhaps? > > In my own thoughts some of the online services like GoodReads, Shelfari and > LibraryThing seems to at least offer some tools and information. A system > that I haven't had a chance to explore enough, Loomis, might help with the > decision making parts. > > > Part of the impetus for this is I've recently joined a technical book club. > At the moment we're using a wiki, which is working fine, but in particular > the voting is clunky. I could picture something where members can add/link > to something like librarything in a list and the book with the most votes > (w/ ties being broken randomly) is the next book in the queue. > > So anyone out there already doing something similar? Thoughts? Ideas? > > Jon Gorman > University of Illinois >
[CODE4LIB] Book Club software tools and approaches?
Hi all, I've been musing on software tools that might be useful for book clubs. I'm not necessarily looking for a turnkey solution explicitly geared towards book clubs, but more a thought experiment of what tools might be useful for an ongoing "in the real world" book club. Some needs that software tools might help keep track of: * A way to vote for what books to read next * Schedule of times * An estimator calculator (reading level of book + length of book, estimated sessions). * way to add notes or linked materials * online discussions to supplement in person meetings * glossary/dictionary functionality perhaps? In my own thoughts some of the online services like GoodReads, Shelfari and LibraryThing seems to at least offer some tools and information. A system that I haven't had a chance to explore enough, Loomis, might help with the decision making parts. Part of the impetus for this is I've recently joined a technical book club. At the moment we're using a wiki, which is working fine, but in particular the voting is clunky. I could picture something where members can add/link to something like librarything in a list and the book with the most votes (w/ ties being broken randomly) is the next book in the queue. So anyone out there already doing something similar? Thoughts? Ideas? Jon Gorman University of Illinois
