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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
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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
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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
