Tagging books
Wed 16 Apr 2008, 6:24 pm
My colleague, Marianne, came up to me today with this book she’d pulled out of the return bin. “Look at this,” she said with a grin. “User-created metadata!”
This isn’t usually what we are talking about when we talk about tagging books. But I suppose it was effective for this student, and that’s what counts. Plus it cracks me up every time I look at the photo.
- License:
- File under: Books and reading,Tutt Library
- Comments? 3
i think you should make a library sponsored program out of this idea! host a tagging party, provide some stickes, and let the students ‘ave at it.
Comment by aaron — April 16, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
Steve: I looked up the book in the Tutt catalog to find out what it was, and found no book matching the call number.
Is it possible that the user-created metadata is about that printed call number?
Comment by Steve Casburn — April 23, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
Well, the book was obviously useless, so we just withdrew it and deleted the catalog record.
Comment by Steve Lawson — April 23, 2008 @ 9:18 pm