The Danbury Library catalog has mashed with the social networking tools of Library Thing for Libraries.

If you look for a book & want to find "more like this" (more Irish fiction, say, like Maeve Binchy's recent Whitethorn Woods), you could, of course, use the Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) Highway bypasses -- Ireland -- Fiction. But really, how many books are there with that subject heading in the catalog? (answer: in Danbury's catalog, 3 -- all different editions of the same book). The LibraryThing-ified Danbury catalog record for Whitethorn Woods shows some neat tags leading you to related books. It also leasds you to "Similar Books:" a few others by Maeve Binchy, plus some you might not have considered. One cool thing is that it only shows similar books that are in the Danbury catalog -- so you don't get recommendations of books you can't borrow from Danbury.