Nicola said:
I thought that a good topic to move on to at this point would be to discuss
if/how social media is being used in your catalogues to engage users with
your materials and/or to encourage contributings of ratings, comments, or
even tags and metadata?

I was particularly considering the type of additions University of
Huddersfield have experimented with, some of which can be seen in their
catalogue (http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=cls) and the
Victoria & Albert Museum's crowdsourcing project for thumbnail images to
display in their OPAC (http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/).

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I would love to, but our current catalogue does not have the capability to
allow users to add tags/ratings/reviews etc.  We are experimenting with some
extracts from the photographic collection on Flickr where people can add
comments but we're not getting many hits (partly because I don't really have
time to promote it I guess...)
I think it's another case of the smaller libraries with lower budgets having
neither the financial, personnel or physical resources to join in as easily
with the new trends.  

Jennie Kelly
@Mininglibrarian