Sutherland Shire libraries use Del.icio.us in a serious attempt to aid research. There seeme to be tags and then subtags . This is an easy was to navigate through the wealth of information available.

Cleveland Public library specialists also have gathered together bookmarks that they consider would be useful resources for research. (I got all excited thinking it would be Cleveland in Queensland but no such luck.) The idea of organising bookmarks and having tags to go with them seems to be a great economy of effort. It allows the user to draw out the sites with a common theme without having to search all over the place. This would be especially useful for research in the library situation where well respected sites could be grouped to enable ease of research. Of course this has the added advantage of being able to view bookmarked sites from anywhere.
Here is my del.icio.us site: http://delicious.com/peacelilly8

Library Thing is so excellent. I wonder how I never knew about this before. I can imagine lots of fun uploading my library.



Technorati seems an interesting place. I found no difference when I search for "bookmobile" with the advanced setting.

My libraryThing page: http://www.librarything.com/Ruthking

RSS feeds

RSS feeds take a great deal of the time out of going from site to site to see if there is anything new to note. When you subscribe to RSS feeds any new items are collected in one spot for perusal.

The sites I selected for RSS feeds include Masterchefs Latest Recipes, Courier Mail /Lifestyle, Opal Training (of Course), Powerhouse Museum photo of the day and Statistically Speaking.

This is an excellent source for Libraries to source new books, reviews ob books, items for educational study and other research. It also would help with keeping up with ideas from other libraries operating in a similar way.

A good example of a library blog that I could identify with was loganlibraries.org.

Now I know how RSS feeds work I'll make good use of them wherever possible.