Social cataloguing revisited - Libraries Research Group at Charles Sturt University

Group members: Philip Hider, Gemma Steele and Anya Smeaton

Social cataloguing, as carried out on sites such as LibraryThing and Goodreads, provides a rich source of data that can potentially inform professional cataloguing practices, and standards such as the Library of Congress subject and form/genre vocabularies (LCSH and LCGFT). This project revisits earlier studies and considers specific ways in which the tags created in LibraryThing can inform library cataloguing in the areas of belles-lettres, history and business.

The second of the project team’s papers can be accessed here.

Contact: Dr Philip Hider
Email: phider@csu.edu.au
Phone: (02) 6933 2522

About the Libraries Research Group

Our research focuses on key issues affecting the sector, examining the ways in which library and information services can be improved, and library collections enhanced, as well the role of libraries and librarianship in contemporary society.

Building on CSU’s position as the leading and largest provider of library education in Australia, we are ideally placed to be the group librarians turn to when they need an evidence base for their decisions, or new solutions to real-world problems.