I just stumbled across this great blog: TechEssence.Info – its contributors (a group of highly-regarded librarians and techies) post ‘easy to understand information about information technology’.
They have a very informative post about Tagging written by Jenn Riley. It’s a good overview of the concepts of tags and how libraries could and should make use of them. I’m about to start a cataloguing course this fall and I doubt it will be covering the nitty-gritty of MARC records. Instead, I hope it will be covering more interesting topics such as those covered in this post, including the concept of combining subject headings from a controlled vocabulary with user tagging.
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