Tagging

This is a great way to give our customers easy access to relevant information. Whilst we need Dewey & LCSH to catalogue our comparitively large public library collections in a meaningful way, tagging provides an efficient means of getting information on topics of broad interest.
Tags for currently in demand topics can be organised in a way that the public will identify with eg; as Sutherland & Clevland have with Art, History etc. These tags lead to a variety of informative sites which will be v. useful. The only danger is that the tags get overloaded with sites so that it becomes hard to sort through them to determine what is relevant for your needs. The ability to view tags as clouds, by frequency of visits, & specifying the no. per page, makes it v. user friendly.

Librarything is a lot of fun, if only I could be bothered entering my thousand books & getting all the benefits. I tend to be too busy reading them. The big advantage is networking with others & finding directions to other titles you might be interested in. The actual information that's provided about the titles you enter isn't so useful, unless you have a bigger collection. With only 1,000 books, I pretty much know what I've got & exactly where it is (being pedantic enough to have shelved them in general Dewey order).