I like the way you think. I was just thinking about how many individual e-mail accounts, Facebook, etc., that I have to try to remember to check every day (in addition to the class Blackboard site). It would be so much easier to have everything at one's fingertips in one place. And I'm glad every time I hear someone say we are in no danger of losing our books.
In my classification class we examined social tagging and reader generated reviews such as those available at Amazon.com. Do you foresee this type of Library 2.0 approach ever becoming part of the OPAC for either the school or public library? Is this an inevitable trend?
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Definitely. We just converted our old database to Destiny- which includes reader reviews & ratings. Students need to be logged into Destiny (where they can also check their account status, checkout history, and make book purchase suggestions for me). It is still brand new to us, but students are eager to get in there and leave comments on their books.
ReplyDeleteWe've been talking about tagging our books-- one discussion we've had is adding a tag for a teacher's name or a course name to go with appropriate research titles or additional reading books. We are still in the brainstorming phase of this.
As far as tagging books with natural language, we are very flexible with our cataloging rules. We often add a searchabe note in natural language for a title that users (including us!) are having a difficult time finding.