Tagging for dummies?
Okay-phew- finally finished the tagging biz. Actually very cool little gadget on its own.I found uses for saving stuff I might have scribbled on scraps of (wait for it…) paper. I like the category thing- I’m not out there enough to see if using other people’s tags will lead me where I want to go- but who knows- I do like the idea of identifying common threads of interest and then borrowing someone else’s brains.
I see a lot of need for younger readers advisory- I know we have other sources for “what to read if you liked…” but maybe locally kids would take us up on it if it could be tagged by categories… I don’t know how we ad them to the process but getting them to see what others are looking at might open their minds to considering it.
I’ll have to come back to this to play more. I think I’ll find it useful…
Thoughts on: Do Libraries Matter?
OK enough time trying to navigate my blog and tweak it…
I actually printed out the pdf of this article in order to read it away from the branch. Which speaks to my perspective- I don’t have internet capability in my home. Nor do my children. Nor does my spouse.
We access the web from work, when appropriate, and as time allows, or from school, (see above, ) or from our public library.
The access is at this time determined by financial constraints and yes, it impacts us constantly. Every team, club, volunteer organization, and especially teacher, expects us all to be connected. Public school classes now have an assumption in place that all students will send in assignments as attachments when requested, as well as have instant access to updates on assigned work etc. Because the library has no ability for us to attach files this involves them (my children) transporting things on flashdrives etc. It gets tricky and annoying.
We’re known throughout our social set: “Oh you’re those people without email!”
What does all this have to do with libraries mattering?
As a stated goal the “democratization of information”- all these wikis, blogs, catalogues, data bases is terrific.
Please remember for some of our citizenry the only way onto the information super highway is, and will probably continue to be,through the front door of their public library.
