Mid-Continent Public Library discussion

i've looked through goodreads and this discussion board to see if there are any "how-to" guides on how to set up connectivity to my actual mid-continent account on goodreads. it doesn't seem like there is (or it is more challenging than i'd like to singularly figure out).

it seems to me that it would be nice if i could add items to my shelf here on goodreads and then when i "search" for it, i could be automatically connected to the mymcpl.org page (p.s. i am a big fan of the new catalog). have any of you succeeded in doing this? i tried to make my own search, but don't know of an isbn number, and don't see any tutorials otherwise. thanks!

My very, very limited look-see is that this isn't possible yet. I think they MCPL system has to be in cohoots with WorldCat to do this...it doesn't seem like they are at present. Here's the message I got when searching:
There are no WorldCat item holdings set for this library. If this is a branch library, holdings may be set at the main library level in WorldCat

I agree. This would be super handy if they were linked, I end up opening other tabs to search the library after marking a to-read. It would be nice to simply choose the 'libraries' option on the book page under ther 'get a copy' feature.

well, i think it is possible after some more testing, i just don't know how to set up a link. goodreads suggests searching for a title by its isbn code and then replacing a specific book code with #ISBN#.

it would look like this: catalog.mymcpl.org/client/default/sea...

this worked all fine and dandy in testing, and then i went to "save" the link, where goodreads won't allow specific characters that mcpl currently uses in it's addresses for their coding (the |, specifically).

see? too technical for me!

Amy wrote: "well, i think it is possible after some more testing, i just don't know how to set up a link. goodreads suggests searching for a title by its isbn code and then replacing a specific book code with ..."

LOL. Yeah, me too.

Within Overdrive you can long-press the book cover on your book shelf. The option to share will come up and Good reads is one of the choices. I add all e-books and e-audiobooks that I access with Overdrive to Good reads from there.

Chantel wrote: "Within Overdrive you can long-press the book cover on your book shelf. The option to share will come up and Good reads is one of the choices. I add all e-books and e-audiobooks that I access with..."

Thanks for the information!