Libraries Interact » Jan Lavelle http://librariesinteract.info Blog central for Australasian Libraries Thu, 10 May 2012 03:46:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 LibraryThing in Tasmania http://librariesinteract.info/2008/02/27/librarything-in-tasmania/ http://librariesinteract.info/2008/02/27/librarything-in-tasmania/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:53:58 +0000 Jan Lavelle http://librariesinteract.info/2008/02/27/librarything-in-tasmania/

The State Library of Tasmania has recently introduced LibraryThing tags into their next-gen OPAC TALISPlus

Try it out – go to Bridget Jones’s diary and click on the Similar/Other/Tags tab – you can then choose a tag like ‘chick lit’ and see the State Library’s holdings in that genre – lots to explore!

Initial feedback has been both positive (on having the tags) and negative (on specific tags). One comment, from a librarian, said that having tags not controlled by the library (some of which ARE a bit strange) reduced the authority of our catalogue. We feel that the benefits outweigh the negatives – what do you think?

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