[Web4lib] Use of social bookmarking sites (WebVoyage-specific hack)

Wed May 2 18:08:30 EDT 2007

At the recent (and last) EndUser conference, the Hackfest session worked
out a Voyager display config that provides both a persistent link in
(easy, had been done before), a link out to WorldCat (easy, had been
done before) and a social bookmarking link out to del.icio.us (as a
proof of concept).

The config lines for Voyager displays went out to
Voyager-Hackfest-L at list.tcnj.edu, which I'll paste here for other
Voyager sites without folks on Voyager-Hackfest-L:

-----Code-----
1.|Persistent URL for this item:
2.|   HTML:001:<a
href="http://your.local.catalog/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID={001}">http:/
/your.local.catalog/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID={001}</a>
3.|Other Resources:
4.|   HTML:020||a:<a
href="http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/{a}&loc=17257"
target="_new">Check Nearby Libraries for availability</a> 
5.|Tag Items (Beta):
6.|   HTML:001:<a
href="http://del.icio.us/post?v=4;url=http://your.local.catalog/cgi-bin/
Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID={001};junk=
7.|   HTML:245: ;title={a} {c}; note=LibraryCatalog">del.icio.us</a>
----/Code-----

**N.B.  
1. Take out the "N.|" before trying this in your display config
2. The pre-filled "Notes" field link "note=LibraryCatalog" (as in above)
does not work, I am still trying to figure out del.icio.us's linking
popup syntax.
3. Oh and remember to replace "your.local.catalog" with the real url of
your catalog.
4. Oh and in the worldcat link, remember to change the "loc=17257" to
"loc=YourFiveDigitZipcode"

Sample record:
http://pilot.passhe.edu:8000/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=87625

-Aaron
:-)'

Aaron W. Dobbs
Systems Librarian
Shippensburg University 
voice: 717.477.1018
fax: 717.477.1389
AIM: AaronLibrarian
Y!M: AaronTheLibrarian

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of brazic at myuw.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:30 PM
To: Jonathan Bloy
Cc: web4lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Use of social bookmarking sites

Our ILS will not let our patrons keep a personal list of library items
they want to look at later or tag them, so I've tried to circumvent by
giving patrons instructions on our web page how to use google reader to
keep their own personal list and tag their items. Once tagged and saved,
they can link directly back into our catalog and reserve it later if
they want.

It works pretty well, but I've yet to see how much it gets used. I don't
have a way to measure use other than anecdotally. It may be too much of
a hassle for some people -- I still want tagging available right from
our catalog, but who knows when our ILS will get around to offering
that.

Here's the instructions I wrote up for our patrons or you can go
directly to the page http://www.sno-isle.org/page/?ID=2625

------------------------------------------------------------------
You must first have a gmail account before you can sign up for Google
Reader. You can do this on the Google Reader page.

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?nui=1&service=reader&contin
ue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Freader%2F

Google Reader is still in beta in Google Labs in so there may be a
glitch or two, but for the most part, it works quite well.

    1. Open your Google Reader Account.
    2. Click on Add subscription
    3. Copy and paste this address into the add box:
http://aquabrowser.sno-isle.org/rss.asp
    4. Soon you will start to see titles appear in a list.
    5. Scroll through and see if something looks interesting to you.
    6. If so, you can click on the title and go into Sno-Isle Libraries
Visual Catalog, read about the item and place a hold if you wish.
    7. Or, if you want to save it for later, click on the star next to
the title.
    8. It is now in your Starred Items list in Google Reader that you
can return to when you are ready.
    9. You can also create your own tag list such as Detective Stories,
Children's Books, DVD's etc.
   10. From your Google Reader list, click on the title.
   11. Click on Add tags.
   12. Add whatever descriptive word you want to put your items in.
   13. Once you tag it, it will stay under that tag in your tag list on
the left side of your Google Reader screen.
   14. When you are done looking through the list of new items, click on
"Mark all as read" so you'll be able to easily see the new ones when
they arrive.
   15. Of course, there is a lot more you can do with Google Reader,
including adding and listening to podcasts, but this is one way you can
start to have your own library reading list.

Colleen Brazil
Content Access Manager
Sno-Isle Libraries
www.sno-isle.org

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Jonathan Bloy 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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