Tagging on LibraryThing

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm new to this challenge--I found this via deepad's post about how to be an ally.   As a starting point I went through my librarything catalog and tagged everything I currently own that's by a PoC author:  Here's the list.  And I found another thinger's "PoC author" tag list, and here are all books tagged "PoC" on LT.

I posted about this to the LT livejournal group, suggesting it as an idea for other people to try, and got schooled about how it's weird to consider "the color of a person's skin" and "I just read the books that interest me" and so forth, LOL. Which I suppose I should have expected!  But a couple of the people who replied did get it, and may try it.  We'll see.

Anyway, I'm posting the links here in case anyone wants to see the book lists, or in case there are other LT'ers here who want to point me toward their tags/book lists.

Looking for a Booklist?

[sanguinity]

Since there are, apparently, a number of new members who are looking for books to read, I thought I'd be hospitable and do an index to some of the resources the comm has already collected.

• List of community tags, which indexes most posts by author/editor name. A very few books are tagged by topic. ETA: Many are now tagged by genre.
  
  
• Note especially the comm's booklists tag, which collects, well, lists of books. Especially lists of links of lists. Because everyone loves meta.
  
  
• Also, the comm has a del.icio.us account, which is used (currently) for booklists.
  
  (Dunno who the mod for that account is, nor whether it's being maintained, but as a general note about how del.icio.us works: if you've got a great booklist that you'd like to suggest to the comm and you have a del.icio.us account, you can add the 50books_poc del.icio.us account to your network, then save the link to your own account under the tag "for:50books_poc," and it will be brought to the attention of the owner of the 50books_poc account. I am spelling this out because it sadly took me a very long time to learn that this is one of the things that del.icio.us is for.)

I've also recently run across the blog Diversity Rocks, which is about increasing diversity in your reading. Not POC-specific, but potentially useful.


And now I'm going to go re-tag a bunch of the booklists in my del.icio.us account with "for:50books_poc."

ETA: And wouldn't you know? I forgot that IBARW's del.icio.us account has a book recommendations tag, too: books.rec.