The concept of crowd-sourcing has grabbed my interest. Its an example of the shift towards a user-centred institution that libraries have labelled 'Library 2.0'. I like the idea that users are given the ability to 'tag' items. Why ask the visitors? Because cataloguing and keywords are set up by and for the institution, not the visitor. Librarians were able to find resources easily because they speak fluent 'librarian'. In the past the expectation was that visitors will come to the librarian for a translation. However now visitors want to find things on their own terms - and crowd-sourcing seems a very logical way to do it.
However I did notice that libraries need to be quite large or run tagging for a long period of time in order to get any useful benefit from this.
However I did notice that libraries need to be quite large or run tagging for a long period of time in order to get any useful benefit from this.
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