Linking from Website to a particular LibraryThing library
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1Bob.J
How can an organization with its own Website link it Website users to the organization's LibraryThing catalog or TinyCat as users, but not administrators, without each user needing separate individual login to TinyCat or LibraryCat/Thing?
2MarthaJeanne
You just give them the URLs
Your catalogue is https://www.librarything.com/catalog/Bob.J/allcollections
The person doesn't need to sign in to LT to see it usually. (There can be temporary blocks if the servers get overloaded.)
TinyCat is designed to help people just look ar a single LT account, without any other LT contact. The advantage to TinyCat is that it is harder for your users to get 'lost' in the larger LT environment.
Your catalogue is https://www.librarything.com/catalog/Bob.J/allcollections
The person doesn't need to sign in to LT to see it usually. (There can be temporary blocks if the servers get overloaded.)
TinyCat is designed to help people just look ar a single LT account, without any other LT contact. The advantage to TinyCat is that it is harder for your users to get 'lost' in the larger LT environment.
3Bob.J
Thank you, MarthaJeanne. I've tried this. First, I tried just cutting and pasting the link you gave me in your message above into a new tab in my browser. Result: I was already log'd into my account on that computer, so it took me into the account as owner/administrator. That is not what I wanted, so I sent the link to myself at another computer where I was not log'd into librarything and entered that into my browser there. It just took me to a librarything login screen, not to my collection. I would have to log into my account there to get to my collection. Neither of these is an acceptable result. I need to be able to take the user from the organization's Website to where he/she can view precisely the my collection only, and only as a user, to get information, but not as an administrator with the power to alter the contents. Of course, in TinyCat, the user would need to be able to check things in and out of the collection on the user's own recognizance, as that user.
4MarthaJeanne
If I sign out and use that URL, I get your catalogue.
52wonderY
Here’s the permanent link found at the bottom of the page of your catalog:
https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Bob.J&shelf=list
https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Bob.J&shelf=list
6Petroglyph
>3 Bob.J:
If I use either link (in #2 or #5), I see your catalogue.
(You don't have to use another device when you're logged in -- just open an incognito or private tab in your browser.)
If I use either link (in #2 or #5), I see your catalogue.
(You don't have to use another device when you're logged in -- just open an incognito or private tab in your browser.)
7Bob.J
Thank you. These responses have been helpful. I was not aware of "Private" tabs or windows, Petroglyph, so I really appreciate that tip. It works as you said, and I learned a useful feature of browsers. I remain puzzled why trying the link on a different computer, did not work as expected for me. Both links do work in the private window, though. I avoid the "cloud" for anything, though, so I don't think that explains the matter, but, perhaps, the "cloud" is picking up local activity of which I'm not aware, somehow. The library is in the "cloud," of course, but the links I use to Websites between the two computers should not have been. It is likely, however, that I had accessed the librarything from both computers, although I only signed into it on one of them. At any rate, thank all of you for your timely responses.