Hungary! Hungary!
LibraryThing is now open for Hungarian cataloging!We've added two sources—the Hungarian National Library (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár) and the Hungarian National Shared Catalogue (Magyar Országos Közös Katalógus), a 17-library consortium which, if I understand correctly, includes the national library as well.*
We are looking forward to welcoming more Hungarians to LibraryThing. Our Hungarian-language site, hu.LibraryThing.com is at an advanced stage of translation. But we need your help. As we release each language, we realize how critical it is to build momentum. We've had success in Holland and Denmark because there were already active Dutch and Danish communities on LibraryThing, and because I knew a good many bloggers in both countries. So far, our Hungarian community has been small (114 members at last count) and I don't know a single Hungarian blogger! So, if you want this to succeed, spread the word. Blog about it! Tell friends! Stand on a street corner!
Oh, and since you read down this far, how about a free account? The first 20 members who write to me from a .hu address** will get a free premium account. Just send me your member name to tim@librarything.com. If you run a blog in Hungarian, I'll send you five more to give away to visitors.
*I'd love some clarification on this. We don't have a bookstore yet—the way we've added Bol-Bruna for Dutch, and deastore.com for Italy. We'd love to add one. Update: Apparnetly, The National Library goes on siesta between 23:00-3:00 CET (GMT +1).
**If you're a native Hungarian speaker in Romania or elsewhere, write me and we'll work it out.
The flag image above is by Flickr user antenae, and is licensed under the Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Her profile lists here as "24, female, Budapest, Hungary." Does she want a free membership?
Labels: hungarian, hungary, libraries, magyar, new libraries
posted by Tim at 4:54 PM
7 Comments:
I just sent you a rather incoherent email ;]
Viva Librarything!
I really dislike the term "premium account", at least when it's entirely misused. If you make lifetime accounts somehow better (e.g., with affinities), then you can call them "premium".
Hi there. You could add bookline.hu for a bookstore, which is a pretty big (if not the biggest) online bookstore in Hungary. As for older books (going back to the beginning of the 20th century) www.antikvarium.hu is the largest online antique book store in Hungary AFAIK.
contacted antikvarium.hu, issue is in front of management.
Oh, thanks. I'd love to add them.
and also the 2nd biggest alexandra.hu :D (included hunbook.hu an antique bookstore, too)
Hello, thank you, I already am a member :) http://www.librarything.com/profile/antennae
Greetings,
the one who took the photo above
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