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Program Outcome 3: 

Explain, use, maintain, and develop systems to organize and retrieve recorded knowledge.

LI 804 Playing Tag: an exploration of folksonomy in comparison to LCSH

MLS Outcomes: 3A, 3B, 3C
MLS Values: PV1, PV2

The purpose of LI804, Organization of Information, is to introduce the individual, social, and institutional perspectives of organizing information. I studied multiple models of organization used in libraries both currently and historically, including the systems of Dewey, Bliss, and Ranganathan. This paper details an attempt to correlate popular user-created tags in LibraryThing to Library of Congress Subject Headings as a way to explore the potential of folksonomic tagging as a tool for information organization. I used research and analytical skills to devise a method for comparing tags to LCSH terms to explain how these systems are used to make sense of collections of information.

Abbas, June. Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schemas. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2010. Print.

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