My course assignment this week is to investigate the usefulness of web-based social bookmarking services such as del.icio.us. Our Web 2.0-savvy staff at the Barnett-Briggs Medical Library has already investigated and found it good. We use our communal account and add to it constantly. I think bundling is the next step. I'm not sure how to do that, but I noticed it on the SJSU del.icio.us site and think it's essential if you have more than say 50 tags.
At the university library where I worked several jobs ago, Marilyn, the librarian in charge of reference desk organization, had created an elaborate system of favorites on IE on the reference desk computer. Man, was she good. She categorized, or "bundled" as del.icio.us calls it, the sites in a very logical way. Very quickly I came to rely on it to answer questions. It was especially helpful for new staff and those of us who didn't work the desk very often.
Climbing into the wayback machine I vaguely remember a file of 3x5 cards we called the I&R File (information and referral file) that contained references to sources of information such as community agencies, services, other libraries, and also had the answer to obscure reference questions such as: "what does ONT stand for on wooden spools of thread?" Answer: Our New Thread. Now I'm really dating myself. Hardly a person is now alive (let alone capable of typing) who remembers those pre-Internet days.
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Social bookmarking and social news allow you to specifically target what you want to see. Instead of going into a search engine, typing something in, and then searching for that needle in a haystack, you can quickly narrow down the items to what you are looking for.Because many social bookmarking sites display recently added lists and popular links.Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
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