Organizing books and materials used to be in the domain of professionally trained catalogers and indexers. Now, through Web 2.0, it is in the hands of everyday "folk." What are the implications of this trend for librarians? Also, for additional food for thought, go to your Delicious site and examine your list of tags. In your opinion, are these tags more or less helpful than traditional subject headings?
The trend of everyday users organizing books and materials is a double-edged sword. While I think it is a great idea for certain educated people to add their opinions about where to find information I also think it could be troublesome as the information might not be more accessible or might even be harder to find. Also I think it’s important for librarians, who have studied and learned the formal ways of organizing information to be in charge of their profession and provide a valuable to service to seekers of information. That being said the tags added with Delicious do help everyday users organize information in a way that is meaningful to them. This helps users create an Internet that is in essence “theirs”.
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