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
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http://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/
From:
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Date:
29/03/2012 13:10
Subject:
Re: [CIG-E-FORUM]
Tagging
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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