Slides from my talk at Computers in Libraries (DC) 2011 on Community Tagging - presented with Suzanne Graham, University of Georgia Law

1. Community Tagging
Gretchen Caserotti; Head of Children
and Teen Services
@gcaserotti
Computers in Libraries, 2011

2. Tagging Solves an Access Need

3. Student Assignment
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• 8th grade class required to read a memoir
• appropriate titles found in many collections &
sections of library’s holdings
• not cataloged as Memoir
• students dependent on staff knowledge to select

4. Student Assignment

5. How do we get
them to THIS?

6. Tagging
“middlesex
memoir”

7. Staff Participation

8. “IDEA President Project”

9. “Staff Favorites”

10. “Meet Us on Main Street”

11. User Generated Tags
Children’s Reading Lists

12. User Generated Tags
Go from this

13. User Generated Tags
To this

14. User Generated Tags

15. User Generated Tags

16. User Generated Tags

17. User Generated Tags

18. User Generated Tags

19. Thank you!
gcaserotti@darienlibrary.org