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Hi Kristine interesting to hear about your research. We suspect (well, I've been told )that our users might tag books with their course codes - that would tie in with the 'toread' etc tags. Karen Dr Karen F. Pierce Cataloguing Librarian Cardiff University Information Services 1st Floor, McKenzie House 30-36 Newport Road Cardiff CF24 0DE http://darksideofthecatalogue.wordpress.com/ http://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/ From: Kristine Chapman <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Date: 29/03/2012 13:10 Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Tagging Sent by: CIG E-Forum <[log in to unmask]> Hi, My name is Kristine, I work in a museum library and do a lot of cataloguing as part of my role, I graduated from my Msc in library studies a couple of years ago. I lurked a bit on here yesterday, but didn't get much of a chance to post anything as I had quite a lot of work on. I've been interested in following the discussion on tagging [even though it isn't something we are considering for our own library] because I did my dissertation on user based tagging. During my research it did seem to come across that on academic, rather than social sites, tagging wasn't that popular. And that those who did tag, tended to do so for more personal reasons rather than to add search terms. For example some of the most popular tags on CiteULike tended to be action terms, such as 'toread', 'todo', 'useful', 'fordissertation' etc, it seemed as though academics were more interested in tagging as a form of organising personal references rather than anything else. It just got me wondering how much usage tagging on library catalogues might actually see. Kristine Chapman @KrisWJ