Patrons Cataloging? The Role and Quality of Patron Tagging in Item Description

摘要

Graham~(20) states "When we suspect that a significant proportion of users'needs may not be adequately met, it is legitimate to consider alternatives to current cataloging practices and policies in order to serve catalog users better" Just as Graham had some success by adding user search terms as cross-references to catalog records, tagging can serve the same function of reducing the number of no-hits searches in OPACs in general.