I like tags. I don't often do the tagging myself, however, I read through them to see what other people have tagged items as. I do this a lot when I'm looking for books in the public library system for my MLS classes and need something specific.
I can't say that I search by tags very often. I seem to get strange results when I do that. Again, I have searched by tags when I needed something that my search terms weren't bringing up.
I think tagging can be a good tool for students to use. Generally, they search for terms that the subject heading might not understand. For example, they might search for home instead of house or domicile. They can use tags to see what others students think this work is about.
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