Tagging/Indexing/Cataloging (Competency 5)

The first part of this week's competency assignment was to go to LibraryThing and add a tag for our textbook. After signing in to my account, I added Heting Chu's book to my library. I then looked at all the tags in the tag cloud and under "all tags" for the book. I added the new tag "Summarization" to the textbook. It was interesting to see the great variety of terms used to tag this book.

For the second part of the assignment, I searched for a resource associated with my area of interest, law librarianship, at the LibraryThing website. I found a book titled Law Librarianship in the 21st Century by Roy Balleste. The tags for this book are:


"future librarianship"(1) Law(1) law library(1) Librarianship(1) libraries(2) management(1) non-fiction(1) not at public library(1) profession(1) to read(1) trends(1)

I thought the most interesting of these tags was "not at public library." That is not a tag which I would have thought to use, but obviously it is an association for this item which is meaningful for someone. I had used the terms "law library" and "law librarianship" to search for a resource relevant to my topic.

The LibraryThing link is: http://www.librarything.com/work/3527211

I chose this book because it is directly related to my area of interest, law librarianship! In fact, it has the same title as my blog!! There is no doubt that this resource would be very helpful to me as I consider a career in this type of librarianship. According to the description of the book on the LibraryThing web page where I found this item, (the description is a product description from Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/, which has been posted on the LibraryThing page), the book is designed for those taking a library science course in law librarianship. Topics covered in the book include "the history of law librarianship, international law, and government documents." In addition, the book discusses collection development, technology, public services, technical services, etc. as these topics specifically apply to a law library setting. This book is such a perfect match for my area of interest that I think I am going to order it from Amazon!