LibraryThing: for The Hoarder Who Likes Order

I think there are two kinds of librarians. There are the information seekers and the information hoarders. And although the LibraryThing does allow you to search, I think this has been designed to tickle the fancy of the hoarder who likes order. I wonder if this is the future of library catalogues. It's amazing to me how a powerful tool like this, that could easily have cost thousands of dollars a decade ago, is available virtually for free. I had a bit of fun entering a few of my favourite books, but being the sort of librarian who is into the searching side of things, I'll leave this one to the cataloguers.