Thursday, June 25, 2009

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

1 comment:

  1. Hi Ruth, I am hoping you will get me email.... thank you so much for your comment and it was so great to meet you in real life. The comment is 'no reply' so I can't answer you so i thought I would try this way.... I didn't realise you had come such a long way... had a lovely weekend.... now we have a quilt show coming up.... Hugz

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