MLibrary 2.0 Projects: Del.icio.us Tags and Subject Guides

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July 06, 2007

Del.icio.us Tags and Subject Guides

Here's a simple idea, use del.icio.us tags to supplement a subject guide or create a new subject guide. You could do this several ways. You could feed the del.icio.us links directly into your subject page (maybe, not sure how this would work with the Grad library database setup) like Suzanne has done on the Usability site or create an entire guide like the Health Science Library has already done.

You could also just have a link to your del.icio.us page, like the Lansing, Illinois Public Library has.

These links can then be syndicated so that users could then subscribe to an RSS feed and see when new links have been added. The idea of creating tags in del.icio.us also would help to organize the links and help people find links of interest. You could accept suggestions for links from other del.icio.us users.

Posted by swortman at July 6, 2007 10:48 AM

Comments

I definitely think this is a great idea. I'd be more than happy to meet 1-on-1 with anyone interested in setting this up and needs a little help.

Posted by: suzchap at July 10, 2007 11:39 AM

At UM-Flint, I've been tagging licensed resources to create del.icio.us linkrolls on our website (e.g. http://www.umflint.edu/library/indalphaE.html ). So far, I'm still only at the stage of creating alphabetical lists, but will soon add linkrolls to our subject-based pages of resources.

I also want to use Diigo bookmarking (http://www.diigo.com ), which allows highlighting and, more importantly, hyperlinks in the notes. Diigo linkrolls aren't as advanced as del.icio.us yet, but I'm hoping their impending v.3 will change that. In general, I'd prefer to have the bookmarks in the library's pages rather than in the del.icio.us or Diigo sites.

Posted by: pgstreby at October 10, 2007 08:49 PM