I think tagging and delicious are neat. It brings out my hidden inner cataloger to assign tags to my blog posts…I was tempted to call them all sorts of strange things, but I suppose that defeats the purpose of tagging effectively. I remember discussions a while ago (we’re talking a couple of years ago) with our technical services director about adding tagging functionality to our library catalog. It was interesting to debate the pros and cons of allowing our patrons to tag library holdings with their own created tags.
While I was intrigued with the positive potential (creating new ways for patrons to find our stuff; easily) I was a bit dismayed with the ability to “renegade tag.” What if our patrons assigned malicious or purposely misleading tags to items? Who would clean up the catalog with misplaced tags…what do we do with tags that are just plain wrong? Ick.
I guess I’m a purist at heart and I’m not ready to hand over our catalog to the tagging public. (we never did, by the way)
I nosed around in delicious, tagged my blog posts and had fun with this one…
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