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What is Connections?
To sum up, Connections is a social networking platform for book lovers provided right in your library's online public access catalog (OPAC). Just few things you can do using Connections:
Create and share your virtual bookselves - keep track of what you have read, what items you own, your current reads as well as wishlist items
Display your bookshelves right in your blog or other social networking applocations - once you create your bookshelf, you can create a widget for sharing it with others
Find other users with similar literary interests and receive reading recommendations from them as well as recommend books to others
Join or create book clubs, discussion groups, chat rooms or even communities about particular book, topic, author or anything else
Create and fully design a user profile to share with others using all basic social networking features like friending, messaging, instant messaging, etc.
Follow what other users are doing in Connections OR follow particular item - get to know when item gets a new review, gets added to a bookshelf or is being set as current read
Automatically post Connections events to your Twitter account
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