Michael Habib-
Help, I need somebody to tagThis student needs help conducting research on his Master’s Thesis on “Collaborative Indexing Systems”, i.e. tagging. Please take his 15 minute tagging “survey” if you get a chance. “Tobias Kowatsch, Student of Computer Science in Media at Hochschule Fu
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BIGWIG got in trouble with LITA for not using enough LITA branding. However, I am joining LITA because of BIGWIG.
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Karen Coombs’ response to Jason’s post and the LITA Letter. “But the truth is that the only way the system changes is if people participate and try to change it.”
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A deeper discussion of ALA committees resulting.
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A peak at Del.icio.us usability testing. Posted on Flickr of course.
Tag Archive for 'delicious'
Amanda at blogwithoutalibrary.net has posted about libraries using del.icio.us. I have been thinking about this a lot recently and am now going to share some of the random thoughts I have been having.
I am surprised more libraries aren’t integrating social bookmarking into their websites. I wonder how many have opened accounts to their patrons? How many allow patron tagging? Do any libraries offer classes in how to use social bookmarking applications? Is there anyway libraries could get their patrons working together to rank and order bookmarks related to local interests? Maybe a library could work with local newspapers to develop such a system. Maybe a library could work with local schools to help students collaborate on research projects using social bookmarking applications. I wonder if any teachers or school librarians have experimented with anything like this.
It is cool that San Matteo uses Dewey, but isn’t that making a simple concept overly complicated? Dewey was designed for classification of physical objects where each item could only be located in one spot. Tagging allows digital objects to exist in many places at once.
I need to look more closely at what libraries are already doing with social bookmarking sites. I also need to look more closely at what libraries are doing with Flickr and social photosharing sites. I will share more ideas on this later.
