Showing posts with label Tagging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tagging. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Tag!

I'm not sure what to say about tagging.

Tags could be quite a useful system for libraries. It seems to be a good way of organising information, and as long as everyone's sensible about the tags they add then I can't see a problem with it.

Having had a look at the way Ann Arbour District Library uses tagging, I can see that it is a good way to organise things by using the terminology that readers are actually searching with. Terminology naturally changes over time and I think tagging in this way is a good method of keeping track of such changes.

However I think that there still is (and always will be) a place for standard terms, such as those used in LCSH.