community tagging

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Slides from my talk at Computers in Libraries (DC) 2011 on Community Tagging - presented with Suzanne Graham, University of Georgia Law

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Gretchen Caserotti; Head of Children and Teen Services

Computers in Libraries, 2011

@gcaserotti

Community Tagging

Tagging Solves an Access Need

• 8th grade class required to read a memoir

• appropriate titles found in many collections & sections of library’s holdings

• not cataloged as Memoir

• students dependent on staff knowledge to select

Student AssignmentFlickr user Law H8r

Student Assignment

How do we get them to THIS?

Tagging

“middlesex memoir”

Staff Participation

“IDEA President Project”

“Staff Favorites”

“Meet Us on Main Street”

User Generated Tags

Children’s Reading Lists

User Generated Tags

Go from this

User Generated Tags

To this

User Generated Tags

User Generated Tags

User Generated Tags

User Generated Tags

User Generated Tags

gcaserotti@darienlibrary.org

Thank you!

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