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del.icio.us and libraries

I’ve mentioned a few times lately that there are lots of internal uses for del.icio.us and social tagging for library work. You already know that del.icio.us is a social tagging service that lets you share, collaborate and discover great bookmarks.
You can read Amanda Etches-Johnson’s blogwithoutalibrary posting on this here. She has collected a few library examples.
Here’s a few ideas to get you started:
1. Start a del.icio.us tag group for your best local history bookmarks for all reference librarians and the commnunity to share.
2. Are you still trying to keep bookmarks up-to-date browser by browser? Are you maintaining a webpage of best links? You might want to shift or incorporate del.icio.us. I even saw a paper Rolodex at one library recently! What a blast from the past!!
3. Think of the tags you might use for book clubs, book recommendations, local authors’ web sites & Amazon links, local tourism links to tie to the tourism website, local genealogy sites, and more.
4. Build a collaborative linking and tagging framework for all reference librarians in all branches. Share the knowledge.
5. Build support tagging for research groups, courses, professors, competitive intelligence, and more.
All it really takes is a simple agreement to use a simple unique tag. I’ve seen it work very well at conferences for years when everyone uses the same tag for the conference in Flickr, del.icio.us and blogs. Even among as diverse a group of people as conference delegates, who mostly don’t know eachother, word of mouth/blog/e-mail/IM etc. seems to get the tag known. It should be real easy internally with folks we know!
Got an idea. Leave a comment.
Stephen

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Posted on: July 15, 2006, 10:56 am Category: Uncategorized

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  1. AMEN Stephen! I working on a del.icio.us tbpl project at the mo’. Thanks for the positive reinforcement!

  2. Hi
    I am your regular reader You have nice approach.
    Would you please review http://www.Tagza.com – it young and funky new Social Bookmarking web site.
    Thanks