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OCLC adding tagging to Worldcat

Yes, folks, the tagging mania has hit the library catalog. OCLC has announced that it's allowing a tagging functionality in WorldCat. From Library Journal:

Now, logged-in users can add an unlimited number of their own tags to any item retrievable by the WorldCat.org search engine...Bob Robertson-Boyd, OCLC product manager social networking, told LJ that the company is waiting for a critical mass of tags to be added before factoring them into the search results: “we want [the tag data set] to grow large enough to make it useful for users.” When that happens, OCLC may consider adding tags as another advanced search option, or featuring tag results as part of the faceted browsing on WordCat’s search results page.
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