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Using Facebook To Connect With Students, Jared L. Howland
Using Facebook To Connect With Students, Jared L. Howland
Faculty Publications
This poster was presented at the Library Information and Technology Association's 2009 National Forum in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Patrons Cataloging? The Role And Quality Of Patron Tagging In Item Description, William Lund, Allyson Washburn
Patrons Cataloging? The Role And Quality Of Patron Tagging In Item Description, William Lund, Allyson Washburn
Faculty Publications
With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, user participation in the description and evaluation of content has come to the library. User tagging is almost a given in applications such as Del.icio.us, Flickr, and LibraryThing. The question is whether tagging provided by users with their own motivations is better in some sense then descriptions provided by professionals. Is the tagging provided by the wisdom of the crowd a better description of an item?