"Forget Dewey and His Decimals"

Pew Internet & American Life Project

"Tagging Play: Forget Dewey and His Decimals, Internet Users Are Revolutionizing the Way We Classify Information - and Make Sense of It". This is a good article to read if you need to learn about the growing use of tagging on sites such as http://del.icio.us/.

I have experimented with the use of tagging as a quick way to make an electronic pathfinder for student use. Simply tag all the sites you wish to use with the same tag and then link to the page of similar tags you create. You create a del.icio.us account where you can store your tags. See:
a page of links tagged "congress" as a possiblity for a pathfinder.