State Library of Tasmania doesn't apply its own membership database in the reader's review function. Instead, the data of its review system is provided by LibraryThing. It means that if a member of State Library of Tasmania wants to submit a review for a book, he/she has to be redirected to LibraryThing's website and has to register a new membership of LibraryThing. The advantage of this system is that the State Library can use the hugh data source of LibraryThing to connecting with its own catalogue database. But the bad side of it is that if the user wants to review a book he/she has no choice but to register a new account in LibraryThing. Stonnington Library uses its own review system. The readers only need to login by their library member account to submit a review.
Like the web2.0 technology, allowing readers to contribute their own book reviews to the library's catalogue system is a new way to take the advantage of internet content contribution. A similar example for this application is Amazon. It encourages its members to leave comments on the books and other items on sales. I had ever bought some books from both amazon UK and amazon China. After I had received the books, amazon always sent email to me to push me rating and commenting on the books. The ordinary readers' review can be treated as a very important reference for the other readers when they choose the books.
I check my community library (Kogarah Public Library) and found that they do have the reader review function. They also use the way like State Library of Tasmania but this time the source-data provider is chilifresh.com .
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