Odds and Ends and email

D. Today I worked from home on my practicum. First I checked my FSN email and found that Tami had commented on my subject headings list. A lot of her comments were saying that we needed to keep both terms that I had asked her to pick one of. So I emailed Dr. Bird asking if it was better to tag a resource with a lot of similar tags (ex. with both aspergers and aspergers syndrome) or just tag a resource with one tag and then create an index for how to find things in the future (ex. tag with aspergers syndrome and then in the index write aspergers-- see asperger syndrome). Dr. Bird then suggested I look into how LibraryThing did its searching, when I did I discovered that they do tag cominbinations to create synonyms for common tags so that even if the search term is similar to the tag it will still find the tagged term. Additionally I did some other email correspondance back and forth related to my practicum and then searched around in LibraryThing more so I am fully aware of my cataloging game plan.
E. I feel like I have my game plan all set now, my terms have been vetted, the tag combination feature should allow me to choose just one term and have the other terms be found as well. I have ideas on how to seperate out collections, but I am still waiting on my supervisors to choose a name for the library. To them this is very important so that they can brand the library with the Family Support Network name. So I guess I feel a little held up at the moment, but hopefully the name will be done by tomorrow so that when I go into FSN I can set up their catalog in LibraryThing and get started. Overall I guess I feel very confident about this part of the project and excited to get started on the actual cataloging.
AL. I learned some great new terms from Tami in her email when she commented about my subject heading suggestions. Additionally I learned about the tag combining feature of LibraryThing that I had not looking to before.