BATH — Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing at www.librarything.com will be the guest speaker at Patten Free Library’s final “Lunch at the Library” presentation at noon Wednesday.

“LibraryThing is a Portland based ‘dot-com’ enterprise that launched in 2005,” a Patten Free Library release states. “Spalding started the site as a pet project that would allow him to catalog his own library, but the idea of creating and sharing libraries online quickly caught on with book lovers everywhere. Today, (more than) 1.5 million users throughout the world are part of this social networking site that has been characterized in media outlets as a ‘Facebook for the bookish.’”

“We are so fortunate that Tim Spalding will be our final speaker for the ‘Lunch at the Library’ series,” Roberta Jordan, an outreach librarian at Patten Free Library, said in the release. “This is a homegrown Maine business, and its purpose should appeal greatly to our patrons. In addition to providing a way to keep track of a personal library and the books that people love the most, Library- Thing lets users connect with communities of readers who share interests.”

The presentation is free, open to the public and will begin at noon in library’s second floor Community Room. No advance registration is required.

For information, call Jordan at 443-5141, extension 25.

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