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We also have a <a href="/index.php/HelpThing_Style_Guide" title="HelpThing Style Guide">HelpThing Style Guide</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc"><div id="toctitle" class="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#.22Not_integrated_with_LibraryThing.27s_Local_Book_Search.22"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">"Not integrated with LibraryThing's Local Book Search"</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Bookstores"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Bookstores</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Libraries"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Libraries</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Other_institutions"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Other institutions</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <p><br /> </p> <p> <b>Translations via Google</b><br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librarything.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FHelpThing%3AProfile&sl=en&tl=fr">Fran莽ais</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librarything.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FHelpThing%3AProfile&sl=en&tl=nl">Nederlands</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librarything.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FHelpThing%3AProfile&sl=en&tl=de">Deutsch</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librarything.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FHelpThing%3AProfile&sl=en&tl=it">Italiano</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librarything.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FHelpThing%3AProfile&sl=en&tl=el">螘位位畏谓喂魏维</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librarything.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FHelpThing%3AProfile&sl=en&tl=fi">suomeksi</a> </p> </div> </div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id=".22Not_integrated_with_LibraryThing.27s_Local_Book_Search.22">"Not integrated with LibraryThing's Local Book Search"</span></h3> <p>Local Book Search is accomplished in a number of ways, depending on what kind of institution you are: </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Bookstores">Bookstores</span></h4> <ul><li>Anyone who lists inventory with AbeBooks is potentially integrated. If you aren't already, let us know and we'll connect you.</li> <li>A number of major chains and large stores鈥擝&N, Waterstones, Indigo/Chapters, Shakespeare & Co., Powells鈥攈ave special arrangements with us. The arrangements are, of course, entirely unpaid on both sides.</li> <li>We do not have any arrangement with IndieBound, despite trying for years. It is not our fault that Indies aren't represented. it is theirs. However, a few indies send us their IndieBound feeds. If you are interested, let us know.</li> <li>If you are another store, let us know what you have in terms of export formats.</li></ul> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Libraries">Libraries</span></h4> <p>Basically, you need to give us your MARC records. As this is a major undertaking, we are currently only extending the offer to libraries that participate in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries">LibraryThing for Libraries</a>. 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At worst, we'll keep it around until we have such a feature. </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_institutions">Other institutions</span></h4> <p>If you have a bookish venue that doesn't qualify as a library or physical bookstore, please use any of the other types available when adding the venue (Fair/Festival; Other (physical) places; Online and other non-places; Little Libraries; TV, Radio, Podcasts). </p>    </div><div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php?title=HelpThing:Venue&oldid=371411">https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php?title=HelpThing:Venue&oldid=371411</a>"</div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-navigation" role="navigation"> </div> <div id="footer-info" role="contentinfo"> This page was last edited on 28 March 2022, at 13:26. </div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="toplinks" role="navigation"> <p id="syslinks"><a href="/index.php/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> | <a href="/index.php/wiki.librarything.com:About" title="wiki.librarything.com:About">About</a> | <a class="external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents">Help</a> | <a href="/index.php/wiki.librarything.com:FAQ" title="wiki.librarything.com:FAQ">FAQ</a> | <span id="pt-login"><a href="/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=HelpThing%3AVenue" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o">Log in</a></span></p> <p id="variantlinks"></p> </div> <div id='quickbar'> <div class="portlet" id="p-search" role="search"> <h3>Find</h3> <form id="searchform-sidebar" method="get" class="inline" action="/index.php/Special:Search"><input name="search" placeholder="Search wiki.librarything.com" title="Search wiki.librarything.com [f]" accesskey="f" class="mw-searchInput" size="14"/><br /><input type="submit" name="go" value="Go" title="Go to a page with this exact name if it exists" class="searchButton"/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search" title="Search the pages for this text" class="searchButton"/></form> </div> <div class="portlet" id="p-navigation" role="navigation"> <h3>Browse</h3> <ul><li id="n-mainpage"><a href="/index.php/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page [z]" accesskey="z">Main Page</a></li><li id="n-recentchanges"><a href="/index.php/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes in the wiki [r]" accesskey="r">Recent changes</a></li><li id="n-help"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents" title="The place to find out">Help</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="portlet" id="p-pageoptions" role="navigation"> <h3>This page</h3> <ul><li id="ca-nstab-helpthing" class="selected"><a href="/index.php/HelpThing:Venue">HelpThing</a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="new"><a href="/index.php?title=Groups:Venue&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="discussion" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t">Discussion</a></li><li id="ca-history"><a href="/index.php?title=HelpThing:Venue&action=history" title="Past revisions of this page [h]" accesskey="h">History</a></li></ul> </div> </div> </div> <script> function lt_getCookie(cname) { var name = cname + "="; var decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie); var ca = decodedCookie.split(';'); for(var i = 0; i <ca.length; i++) { var c = ca[i]; while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') { c = c.substring(1); } if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) { return c.substring(name.length, c.length); } } return ""; } var ltusername = lt_getCookie('cookie_wikiuserid'); var lt_user = document.getElementById('lt_user'); var ltusername_el = document.getElementById('ltusername'); var lt_signout = document.getElementById('lt_signout'); var lt_signin = document.getElementById('lt_signin'); if (ltusername != '') { ltusername_el.innerText = ltusername; lt_user.style.display = 'inline'; lt_signout.style.display = 'inline'; lt_signin.style.display = 'none'; } else { ltusername_el.innerText = ''; lt_user.style.display = 'none'; lt_signout.style.display = 'none'; lt_signin.style.display = 'inline'; } </script> <script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.017","walltime":"0.030","ppvisitednodes":{"value":21,"limit":1000000},"ppgeneratednodes":{"value":44,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":1379,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":0,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":2,"limit":40},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":0,"limit":100},"timingprofile":["100.00% 4.972 1 -total","100.00% 4.972 1 Template:HelpThing"]},"cachereport":{"timestamp":"20250224221232","ttl":86400,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script><script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgBackendResponseTime":341});});</script> </body></html>