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A survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that 28% of individuals in the United states have tagged content on the internet. If they’re tagging for online websites, photos, blog posts, and other content, why not bring this cooperative activity into library websites and online catalogues?
As Melissa Rethlefsen of Library Journal explains, tagging and social bookmarking in libraries empower users and staff. They can facilitate and enhance access to library materials and tools, and they allow users to create their own organization that makes sense to them. This blog takes a look at the way in which different libraries are utilizing services that incorporate tags.
This a project for partial fulfillment of the requirements of LIBR 500 Foundations of Information Technology, at the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies – University of British Columbia.
I’m Sarah Perrin and I’m The Tagging Librarian.
(image source for site header: http://flickr.com/photos/chesslibrarian/2035438402)
[...] see Lichen’s Scriblio installation instructions translated to Hungarian. Even cooler to have Sarah the tagging librarian take hard look at it and give us some criticism (and praise!). But I’m positively ecstatic to [...]
By: » People Make Scriblio Better on November 29, 2007
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