del.icio.us libraries - April 11, 2008
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I’ve been spending a fair bit amount of time going through my favourite websites and bookmarking them in del.icio.us.So why do I love del.icio.us so much?
A number of reasons:
- I can store and access my favourite websites from any computer;
- I can share my websites and comments with friends and those who belong to my del.icio.us network;
- I can discover new websites by browsing other user’s tags (great for research!);
- I can take advantage of the daily blog posting tool to automatically add new websites to my blog;
- the ability to display link rolls (my latest bookmarks) and tag clouds to my website;
- I can syndicate my links via RSS.
Lately I’ve been giving some thought to how libraries use del.icio.us.
So how can you make your library del.icio.us?
Take a look at “Make Your Library del.icio.us: Social Bookmarking in the Stacks” presented on February 22, 2007, by Jason Griffey from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, as part of the “Five Weeks to a Social Library” series of online workshops.
Libraries using del.icio.us
Some great examples of libraries using del.icio.us include:
Assumption College for Sisters Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
ArLiSNAP : Art Library Students & New ARLIS* Professionals
Take a look at how they have implemented del.icio.us on their website. A great example of a del.icio.us tag cloud appears on their “Resources” page.
Beaufort County Library : bclrefdesk’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
Bibliothèques de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) : del.icio.us page (in French but a pleasure to explore!)
Chelmsford Public Library’s del.icio.us page and Subject Guides page is integrated on their website.
Columbus Public Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
CSU-Pueblo Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Cubberley Education Library del.icio.us cloud in blog and bookmarks on del.icio.us
Dublin City Public Libraries : bookmarks on del.icio.us
East Providence Public Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Business, Science and Technology Department : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Holdrege Public Library makes good use of delicious tag clouds on their “Links we Love“, Kid’s Zone and TeenSpace. Each page has a separate del.icio.us account:
Holdrege Public Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
HoldregeLibraryKids’ : bookmarks on del.icio.us
HoldregeLibraryTeens’ : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Kansas Reads to Preschoolers : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Lansing Public Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
La Grange Park Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Laurence McKinley, Gould Library images collection : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Maui Community College Library :bookmarks on del.icio.us
McMaster University Library Web Team : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Missouri River Regional Library’s Reference Links Database : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Menasha Public Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
MIT Libraries is using del.icio.us for their Virtual Reference page. You can view the tag cloud or see their links in del.icio.us.
A great example of a library using the del.icio.us tag cloud for their Teen page is Nashville Public Library.
Natural Resources Canada Library: English bookmarks on del.icio.us and French bookmarks on del.icio.us
Nebraska Library Commission : NLC_Reference’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Library : nwtclibrary’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
North Metro Technical College Library : “Resources Related to Your Program of Studies” bookmarks on del.icio.us
OCLC list of the top 1000 titles : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Pierce County Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
San Mateo Public Library bookmarks on del.icio.us (a great example of websites organized using the Dewey Decimal Classification System!)
Seldovia Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Seminole County Public Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources has made great use of the del.icio.us tag cloud on their Green Library bookmarks on del.icio.us .
Springfield Technical Community College Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Stony Brook University, Health Sciences Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
Tampa Bay Library Consortium : TampaBayLC bookmarks on del.icio.us
Thunder Bay Public Library’s del.icio.us list, tag cloud, and bookmarks on del.icio.us .
Thomas Ford Memorial Library
Website links are syndicated on their “our recent bookmarks” page.
Umpqua Community College Library (Roseburg, OR) : bookmarks on del.icio.us .
University of Alberta Libraries : Winspearslib bookmarks on del.icio.us
University of Georgia Library, Cataloging Department cataloging resources
University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries : ufchemistrylibrarian’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
University of Michigan Dentistry Library : bookmarks on del.icio.us
University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries : UMHealthSciencesLibraries bookmarks on del.icio.us
University of Michigan Library 2.0 Program : Mlibrary2’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
Washington State Library Public Services Team : research and genealogy links
Witkin State Law Library of California : bookmarks on del.icio.us
And of course, I’ve bookmarked all these sites to my del.icio.us under the tag “deli.icio.us/libraries”, so you can view them there too!
Resources
Here’s a round-up of del.icio.us tools and resources.
Two good blog post on del.icio.us implementation from Social Networking Strategies for Libraries:
From the Ning Library 2.0 Network:
Library Subject Guides using del.icio.us
Social Bookmarking 101 : focus on del.icio.us, presentation by Stephanie Zimmerman, Training Coordinator, Library System of Lancaster County.
July 3, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Nashville Public Library
http://www.library.nashville.org/teens/teenweb.asp
We’re trying this out, too.
July 3, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Thanks Kyle. It’s a great example of a del.icio.us tag cloud! Nice website.
August 22, 2007 at 1:03 pm
We have a del.icio.us page too
http://del.icio.us/eppl
September 6, 2007 at 4:39 pm
[...] linklists and the indexing of internet resources. Libraries who are doing this you will find at the mélange blog. Tags:en, Literaturverwaltung, Bibliothek 2.0, [...]
September 6, 2007 at 4:47 pm
[...] linklists and the indexing of internet resources. Libraries who are doing this you will find at the mélange blog. Tags:en, Literaturverwaltung, Bibliothek 2.0, [...]
September 7, 2007 at 1:52 am
Umpqua Community College Library in Roseburg, OR also has a del.icio.us account, which is featured on the library’s website:
http://www.umpqua.edu/library/libhome.htm
September 11, 2007 at 9:38 am
[...] mélange. Sammlung von libraries, die mit del.icio.us arbeiten plus Anleitungen, wie del.icio.us, Bloggs und [...]
September 14, 2007 at 11:09 am
[...] http://angelacw.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/delicious-libraries/ I thought that the San Mateo Library did a great job of organizing by Dewey Decimal numbers. This would seem like potentially a very good way for a library to make use of de.icio.us as a reference tool. [...]
September 24, 2007 at 10:39 am
[...] bibliotecas que usan Delicious en Delicious indeed y en Del.icio.us libraries Etiquetado como:biblioteca 2.0 delicious social bookmarking [...]
October 3, 2007 at 10:55 am
[...] are currently underway and will be completed in the next few months. However, interestingly I found a list of libraries using del.icio.us in the States in another great posting by ILibrarian on Library 2.0 subject guides. And many thanks [...]
October 14, 2007 at 7:45 pm
[...] Many other libraries use del.icio.us, but are using different interfaces. Check out the long list here: http://angelacw.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/delicious-libraries/ [...]
October 31, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Wow, what a cool list. This is always gives me the feeling that the pace of technology change is increasing more and more rapidly, and that it’s going to be tough to envision how any organization is going to be using technology even a year from now.
October 31, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Thank you for your comments Luke.
I think libraries in general have always been quicker to explore how these technologies can be used to deliver content to their users.
Social bookmarking relies heavily on human interaction (and intervention too). It always makes me wonder, “what will social bookmarking be like in the future?”
November 6, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Nebraska Library Commission
http://del.icio.us/nlc_reference
November 27, 2007 at 2:27 pm
[...] kind you see on the IPL or LII, you can make recommendations through a library delicious account. Many libraries are already doing this. The thing is, you just need to keep up with it and make sure that people [...]
December 1, 2007 at 12:59 pm
[...] Put them in delicious You can also import this link list into a http://del.icio.us/ account for everyone to see. This way, you don’t need to copy and paste code for a webpage, you just import into delicious. Delicious is a social bookmarking site. Social bookmarking means that you can share the bookmark with multiple people. If you don’t have a delicious account, one is freely available by going to the website and clicking on get started. You can enter your information and once finished, click on import and it will import that same bookmarks.htm file into your delicious account. Voila! you now have all of your links online, categorized in your way, available for everyone to see, and now you can update it whenever you have a new bookmark. You can drag a button called Post to Delicious into your Internet Explorer browser. By clicking on this button, the webpage you are at is sent to your delicious account instead of into your local browser. For a list of libraries that use delicious, click here. [...]
February 26, 2008 at 8:23 pm
[...] for a free hour to do some quick-and-dirty cataloging!), I’m posting the link to this great list of libraries using del.icio.us. Current as of Feb 7, 2008. Not sure whether it will be [...]
March 31, 2008 at 2:55 pm
[...] A collection of links to libraries that use Delicious, including many university libraries, with additional links to resources and tools. [...]
April 9, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Thanks for showcasing ArLiSNAP!
April 11, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Great idea! I’m keeping up with this page. FYI, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Business, Science and Technology Department has a delicious account: you can check it out here —>
http://del.icio.us/epflslrc_bst
All of Pratt’s departments have a del account, but I can only speak for mine…
Take care,
Ray Cruitt
April 11, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Thanks Ray! Enoch Pratt is now on the list.
April 11, 2008 at 11:25 pm
@Bryan: No problem. ArLiSNAP has some really great tags and links!
May 9, 2008 at 12:16 pm
[...] …more here [...]
May 11, 2008 at 7:31 pm
[...] del.icio.us libraries A partial listing of libraries using del.icio.us to share recommended websites. (tags: Web2.0 library2.0 education Del.icio.us) [...]