tag, you're it!

On delicious, 37 bookmarks include a tag of lawley . One of the bookmarks is for social consequences of social tagging; a posting by Liz Lawley on the site Many 2 Many - 'a group weblog on social software'.  The post is from 2005 and in it Liz makes some interesting points about the word choice used in social tagging of images/websites (bookmarks)/books etc.; 'Knowing that your descriptors will change how people can access your content can’t help but change the way you use the tags—just as knowing that people will read your blog influence the way you write.'

Social bookmarking and libraries.
In the olden days libraries used to have pages on their websites with lists of links, usually sorted into subject groups. The problem with these was that the had to be constantly checked and updated and required a lot of time compiling.  And every library had a small collection of these links which would often have much the same links as all the other libraries around, and not many people looked at these links, as they were a bit out of the way and once you had search the library catalogued  to see if there were any relevant books, you would then do a internet search, and probably find most of the listed links anyway. Libraries should either have important websites listed in their catalogues, with full MARC records, so that users searching the catalogue can find them along with other resources - or/and utilise social bookmarking sites, such as delicious, to have all their bookmarks tagged and easily accessible to everyone. A good example of the latter is how  SLWA's geneology section have set a delicious  account for genealogy websites;  check out their tag cloud .


Librarything
I have added a widget from my librarything account to this blog. Some books I have read.