Any Librarians using Social Bookmarking?
Published by Niall Cook June 20th, 2007 in Collective intelligence, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge managementSteve Dale laments the lack of librarians out there "evangelising the merits of personal tagging". He says:
Maybe I’m reading the wrong blogs, but my perception is that most Librarians remain wedded to structured, corporate categorisation and file management systems, and haven’t yet grasped that the world is changing around them.
Steve’s already been given a few pointers in the comments, and Anne Welsh has contributed an excerpt from an article in Health Information and Libraries Journal that highlights the different nature of folksonomy and taxonomy in this context.
Blame Helen Nicol for kicking the whole thing off… 
In response to your idea that librarians are NOT using social bookmarking, I’m actually attending a conference at the moment where we (librarians) are learning about social bookmarking! So, looks as though your assumption won’t be true for long. Many of us have del.icio.us sites for our bookmarks and we’re starting to add to them and connect to each other. Just a thought…
And it’s a good thought too. To be clear, I’m not saying that librarians are NOT using social bookmarking - I’m just pointing to a discussion that is.
That said, it’s great to hear that more librarians are hearing about it. Now if you could just stop worrying about how folksonomy is evil…
I can’t turn down a call to arms now can I
Helen