UPenn Catalog Tagging
March 11th, 2006
While we’re not sure how they are doing it, the UPenn library is now allowing users to create their own personalized classification systems by enabling item tagging in the catalog.
I learned about this from the ever resourceful ACRL Blog, which is blogging year round (like we do at the PLA Blog) and not just active at conferences (great work guys!).
But back to the tagging. The UPenn library has always been one to watch with new social tools. They created their tagging system a while back and, if you look at the dates under the tags, it is heavily used. With the addition of this new feature
+ Students can rely on their trust networks to locate materials that they wouldn’t otherwise see.
+ Professors can assign books and tag each one with the course number.
+ Librarians can easily create online subject oriented reading lists.
How exciting that a library is helping to make the catalog a two way street. Here’s an idea:
Match up the tags to those in Library Thing (the biggest book tagging tool online today). In this example, the book is tagged with the keyword HIV. Here’s the tag for HIV in Library Thing. Mesh these together with links to the catalog entry for each book and you have a pretty interesting collaborative service…
March 31st, 2007 at 9:07 am
[...] Library Stuff 的 Steven M. Cohen 經由 ACRL Blog 得知美國 UPenn library (賓州大學圖書館) 已經提供 tagging 的服務了。你可以連結到 OPAC 的 書目記錄 去看看，或者點選下圖放大看看。 [...]