A PowerPoint Presentation on Bookmarking and Tagging.

1. Using Tagging and Bookmarking in Libraries by Brenda Hostettler

2. Why Bookmark? Easy retrieval of favorite URLs Favorites tab is for private bookmarking Del.icio.us is a popular site for social bookmarking Social bookmarking shares favorite URLs with others

3. Why Tag? Any URL can be tagged for easy retrieval Tags are linked so others can have access To share your favorites with other users In LibraryThing, a tag acts like a keyword to jump to a specific topic

4. Who Tags? Tags are created by the user

5. Tagging Benefits Allows users to add metadata to digital content for easy access Helps categorize information Store and retrieval system helps libraries serve patrons quicker Positive for libraries by incorporating an interactive online system that responds to the user

6. Tagging Problems Misspelled words renders content unusable Bad choice of words or definitions for tags are not useful and create unnecessary noise Words that have multiple meanings give incorrect results

7. Popular Bookmarking and Tagging Websites Del.icio.us Del.irio.us Fuzzfizz Jumptags LibraryThing Linkroll SiteTagger.com