[Web4lib] Use of social bookmarking sites

[Edward Corrado]

Thanks for the plug Ryan.

If anyone has any questions about how we do this, I'd be happy to answer
them.

Also, at the hackfest held during the EndUser conference last week, Aaron
Dobbs, I, and others created a way to add a link to add library records to
del.icio.us from the record display view of our Voyager catalog. I need to
go through the proper channels before adding it to our production online
catalog, but you can see it in action on Shippensburgs' catalog at:

http://pilot.passhe.edu:8000/

Or you can link to a specific record to see what it looks like:

http://pilot.passhe.edu:8000/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=367958

Due to the way Voyager works, there was some challenges we had to
overcome, and some more tweaking would be nice, but it seems to work
pretty good for just starting to figure it out.

Edward


> There was a lightning talk at code4lib 2007 by Ed Corrado about using
> del.icio.us to add information to subject guides. You can see an
> example page here, which includes sites tagged by the subject
> specialist:
>
> http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/moulaison/ItalianStudies.html
>
> You can watch the lightning talk here:
>
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6365628404758326745&hl=en
>
> Ryan Eby
>
> On 5/1/07, Jonathan Bloy <JBloy at edgewood.edu> wrote:
>> I've been using http://del.icio.us/ for personal things for a while now.
>> The other day I got to thinking it might be useful in conjunction with
>> our website and/or intranet (for librarian recommended web links).  So
>> that brought up the question...
>>
>> How are other libraries using social bookmarking sites for their patrons
>> and staff?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Bloy
>> Web Services Librarian
>> Edgewood College
>> Madison, Wisconsin
>> http://library.edgewood.edu/
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