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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010

Tim Spalding and a LibraryThing Crew "Flash Mob Catalog" 1963 White House Library

This blog post has a first-hand report from Tim but allow us to share what we think are a few highlights.

+ Over 20 LibraryThing members participated

+ "We did it from a limited-edition "Short-Title List" printed by the White House Historical Society, using LibraryThing's 700-odd library data sources"

+ The White House 1963 Library contain 1,700 books

+ It's now one of 128 legacy libraries in the collection.
Note: Spend a few minutes on the page looking at legacy libraries in progress and completed. Very cool.

Why Did Hey Do It? We'll allow Tim's words to do all the talking here. However, ResourceShelf does offer kudos and congrats on superb thinking by LibraryThing. It was the right idea at precisely the right time.

Tim Spalding concludes:

As fun as it was to do, it's perhaps a shame we don't have similar collections for all the presidents since then. However interesting, it would be a shame if the White House Library forever remained a 1960s relic.

You Can Access the Complete Blog Post (including Several Links) Here.

Source: LibraryThing

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