My previous comment about library thing may have been a bit brief (or not actually a comment) so here is a bit more. All libraries should add Librarything for libraries to their online catalogues. These catalogue additions enhance the catalogue immensely, adding user generated tags to complement the existing subject headings and giving access to book reviews.
The Cockburn Libraries catalogue has the ability for users to add comments/reviews to the book records, however even if lots and lots of our members did this (so far the up-take isn't great, or good even), you would still be working off a very small population base. This is why librarything reviews are so much better, as you drawing for a huge population of readers to get your ratings, reviews and tags.
At Success Library we set up a librarything account for the book club so we could create a widget to display the book club books on the book clubs' page on the library website. Cockburn Libraries also have a staff current reading account, so we can display a widget of what staff are reading on the library's blog .
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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.
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.
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