Experiments in Tagging

There are times in my life that I just have TOO MUCH going on, and that has been the case for the past couple weeks.

I actually did do the tagging assignment before I disappeared from my blog. Since we are putting a new focus on the Young Adult section of our library, I went out "surfing" for ideas on the Internet. I have always been pretty good about organizing my bookmarks. For example, in the past I would have created a favorites folder called "Young Adult" and inside of it there would have been other folders called, for example, "Booklists" and "Cool Webpages" and "Program Ideas."

But tagging takes that process one step better, as in the case when I found a library YA webpage with a really cool look to it, and it had links to excellent Young Adult booklists, and it listed the programs for teens that the library would be doing for that month. Tags: teens programming booklists WebpageDesign.

The one tricky thing about tagging is to remember your previous tag labels, so that you don't label something "teens" one time and "YoungAdults" the next. (You notice I also figured out the other tricky thing about tagging-- if you want to give something a two-word tag, you have to join the words so that you don't get something tagged with both "young" and "adults," for example.)

By the way, if anyone from Great Falls ever reads my blog, I loved your teen webpage!