Well I guess I never really thought about the importance of tagging. There has to be a way to link information to a search. I never thought of tagging until I had to tag some photos in Facebook. And even then I didn't relate that to anything else. It makes sense now in a different way. My search in google vs. my search in the catalog gave me very different results. In google, there are so many more millions of records than in the catalog so I got so many more results. And in a subject search, it is so much more important to have the correct tag, or you don't find what you want.
I guess that tagging is a new name for an old process. Just much easier to access now. I don't know that most people would claim that libraries were the inventors of tagging, but I think that they are the same process.
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