Thing 13: Tagging

We have a Delicious account for the Children's librarians and tagging is used there to organize all of the recommended web sites. It is pretty handy for that. I do a fair amount of searching for images on Google for school kids and tagging is used there, too. But I don't see it as a practical application for a library catalogue. Tagging doesn't seem to be specific enough. Maybe I feel that way because I'm used to doing searches a particular way. To keep track of the web sites I use, I prefer bookmarking. I can't always remember the addresses, but I can usually recognize the names of the sites. Still, tagging is nice for certain circumstances.