Joan Giesecke, Dean of Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Interim Director, University of Nebraska Press, wrote to us sharing great news about the way her campus has responded to the opportunity to participate in Encore Discovery:
“We have a new ethics center on campus that wanted a library collection for the center. Instead of trying to create another branch library, we introduced them to tagging in Encore. They have now tagged over 300 books with the tag ‘Ethics Center’ so when you search under that term you get materials on applied ethics and the teaching of ethics – subjects that are difficult to search in traditional subject headings without using a lot of terms. Tagging is a way to create a specialized collection that is virtual and easy to find.”
See for yourself in this search for ethics center on UNL’s Encore implementation.
Dee Ann Allison, Professor & Director COR Services, tells us: “None of this participation is creating extra work for the staff. We haven’t had to delete one of the hundreds of community tags yet. Some of them may look a little weird and you might not know what they mean–’alien weeds’ for example–but they are clearly valuable to some of our users. In this case those users turn out to be to agriculture students studying invasive plant species.”
Participation is powerful! There’s more to be found about community tagging on the Encore website.