When the average person thinks of a "hashtag" and how it is used, their first thought would probably be in reference to twitter or instagram. The use of a hashtag is placing the pound symbol (#) in front of a word, and that post or tweet will be associated with every other post or tweet that share that #hashtag.
Social media has tricked us all into indexing and assigning keywords to our posts! Kinda kidding, but interesting concept is it not? Let's say I am a photographer, and when I share my work on my instagram page, I also tag it with the following: #photographer #nature #mountains. Now if I am a regular user who just wants to see some cool pictures of the mountains while I am stuck in my 800 square foot apartment in Brooklyn, all I can do is open up my Instagram app and search through the hashtag. I can come across your image that you posted.
What if library patrons could "tag" books in the catalog? I know most ILS/OPAC have ways of searching through subjects, authors, title and more; but sometimes both patrons do not know how to correctly search and MARC records are not as well done as they can be. Imagine a patron checks out a book, reads it, and can add tags so that maybe a patron who wants to read a specific type of story, or even character types that they enjoy reading about. It may be an impossible late night idea, but I think it could be an interesting project for both staff and patrons alike.
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