Online bookstore for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

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1davidt8
Bearbeitet: Jan. 7, 2009, 9:32 am

I have attempted to add an online bookstore for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, as follows:

http://www.librarything.com/venue/38940

When I do this, I get, in red, the following statement:

“Management and members take a very hard line about online venues. Online venues must host bona fide, time-limited and interactive events of interest to book lovers.”

I have also added the Athenaeum as a library, which it is, and included in the description the following from their website:

"The Athenaeum is a member supported, not-for-profit, special collections library founded in 1814 to collect materials 'connected with the history and antiquities of America, and the useful arts, and generally to disseminate useful knowledge' for public benefit."

The Local page for Philadelphia shows only the library, and not the online bookstore, but both can be found by searching on the name.

Perhaps the online bookstore of the Athenaeum should not have a separate page, but I would point out that the online bookstore provides the only way to order some books and posters only available from them.

Please comment on how this bookstore should be shown, or if it should not be shown at all, or maybe what I have done is satisfactory, but won’t be shown to LT members until there is some volunteer or staff action to make it more visible.

2lampbane
Jan. 8, 2009, 9:28 am

Online bookstores are not what they mean by an online venue. The "online venue" category is meant to cover things like online author chats or Second Life book events. If they covered bookstores, then we'd have to cover Amazon and bn.com and a bunch of other sites which are also exclusive dealers of certain products.

3davidt8
Jan. 8, 2009, 10:19 am

I learn that properly this entry should be combined with the library entry for the Athenaeum.

When and where would a LT online venue appear in the Local page?