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Using Social Networking Tags in a Library Setting
Keith KisserJuly 9, 2008
Social Networking Tags
User based classification Tags don’t replace traditional
cataloging, they enhance it
Folksonomy
“The practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.”*
How people organize data on a personal level
*From Wikipedia
Web 1.0
The Library as a point of access to the Internet
Web 2.0
The Internet as a point of access to the Library
Tags are part of the Web
Keep track of your favorite sites and content across multiple platforms
Users define their own needs and wants
3 ways Tags can be used in a library:
Del.icio.us LibraryThing Flickr
Organize websites and web content Self-generated categories Based on common subjects and categories
Bundlesorganize tags
Tags
Del.icio.us in the library
Useful for library staff Cross-platform research
Catalog your personal library Tags ranked by popularity Ratings and Reviews like
Amazon.com
Users select the way they view content
LibraryThing Record
Tags display in Item Record
LibraryThing in the OPAC
Organize, share and print your photos online
Also uses tags Allows comments for individual photos Users create albums or collections
Comments allow forusers to contribute
information
Flickr and Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing – “taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call.”*
faculty, staff, students and the general public contribute additional information
*From Wikipedia
Flickr as an extension of the library catalog
Display exhibitions and special collections Expands access Add links in the OPAC
Not everyone is a cataloger —This is a good thing
Tagging is familiar Patrons contribute to the collection Customizable
Tags in the Library
Introduces the idea of the library catalog as a tool people already use, not something alien and weird that requires special powers
Works Cited Mercado, Andrea. LibraryTechtonics: Tagging on Flickr & del.icio.us.
http://www.librarytechtonics.info/archives/2005/10/tagging_on_flic.html
Fister, Barbara. Acrlog: LibraryThing for (Academic) Libraries. http://acrlog.org/2008/03/08/library-thing-for-academic-libraries/
Anon. LibraryThing for Libraries. http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/
Rethlefsen, Melissa. Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us - 9/15/2007 - Library Journal. Library Journal. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6476403.html
Wenzler, John. 2007. LibraryThing and the Library Catalog: Adding Collective Intelligence to the OPAC. CARL NITIG, September 7. online.sfsu.edu/~jwenzler/research/LTFL.pdf
West, Jessamyn. librarian.net : IL05 : 24oct05.http://www.librarian.net/talks/flickr/
Thank You!