After searching LibraryThing for a resource that ties in with my blog topic of Library 2.0 and the Academic Library, I found Cathy De Rosa's OCLC report on College Students' Perceptions of Libraries And Information Resources from 2006. The work examines the information-seeking habits and preferences of international college students and serves as a companion piece to the December 2005 OCLC Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources report.
It was exciting to see tagging in action: I located the resource on LibraryThing because other ordinary people as I am had informally tagged the resource with "library2.0," and I added the tag of "academic" for the level of libraries I'm interested in. Pretty cool.
The "cloud" of tags that have been
been assigned to De Rosa's report is represented by this cut-and-paste graphic to the right. Note that the greater the number of times a term has been assigned to the title, the larger, bolder the tag appears in the cloud. (You can see this cloud for yourself, and updated in real-time, at http://www.librarything.com/work/2722553.)
(I went to Amazon and found no one had tagged this report, so I started the page off with my own two, Library2.0 and academic. It's spreading.)
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