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Last night, I listened to a podcast<\/a> from from Talis of members of the Library 2.0 Gang<\/a> discussing tagging, folksomies and libraries. You can <\/span>Download the MP3<\/a> here. I’d already written this post before a couple of coincidental things happened. More on that later.<\/span>
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\nI’ve been waiting to hear librarians talking about social tagging ever since I poked my duck like beak into Library 2.0. I particularly wanted to hear where our traditional cataloguing tools might fit. I wasn’t disappointed. Paul Miller did make the point that it was 40 minutes into the total 45 before authorities were discussed.<\/p>\n

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Street performers – Australia (LCSH)<\/p>\n

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It was great to match people’s voices with their blogs. All much as I imagined – except Paul Miller. I expected him to be brash and way too forward..something to do with the job title “Technology Evangelist”, I guess. He was very English and politely witty in a way that made me think of old BBC radio series like My Word.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Synchroniciity number one – A couple of hours ago, Paul Miller actually commented on my “They DO mash<\/a>” post. BTW, they received 18 entries in the Mashing Up the Library competition)<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the points raised that I found interesting (many of them by Karen Schneider, I think):
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