Tags

I see the usefulness of tags, but I really don't tag. I do use del.icio.us and I love it but I don't tag on there or on Shelfari. I do use "labels" for my blog but that is as far as I go. I know that tags are useful if someone is looking for only items that fall into that subject or area, but you have to be careful because what you might label as one thing some one else will label it as another.

It could be helpful in the catalog especially if they are member driven and not staff driven. There probably will be some people, who like me find them quite annoying and others who find them useful. If we are going to use them I think that there should be some kind of limit or order so we don't have so many of them. There is always going to be someone who writes, WWII, instead of spelling it out and another person will come along and spell it out. Does it really matter since they are the same thing? No, but someone will cause a fuss about it.