TAG You're "It"

Tagging. Using spray paint to cover a wall of library books.....
no wait.

Tagging. Adding little notations to items (in the library world) that can link like things together.
The trick is that "like things" means different things to different people.

So, a Harry Potter book could have tags of Fantasy, England, Rowling, etc. But it could also include Wizards, Dragons, Reluctant Heroes.

The idea is that users could "tag" items in the libraries catalog and thus create links between items and suggestions of places to go to find more items like that one.

So we could have the LC headings of Cookery AND we could have users' Tags linking cookbooks to other items on entertaining, gardening, nutrition, health, chefs, etc.

I think it is a fun idea and one we might want to explore. Users would participate in the process!