July 16, 2007
Collaborative research on social bookmarking
Several HSL librarians (including me, Patricia Anderson, and Preet Rana) and med school faculty are discussing a project to explore how medical students use del.icio.us to communicate and share resources relevant to their classes. If anybody is doing something similar in another subject area, it would be interesting to compare notes.
Posted by janeblum at 12:07 PM | Comments (2)
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 10:48 AM | Comments (2)
June 13, 2007
Bibliography wiki
I'm in the process of creating a Women's Studies wiki featuring videos the library owns appropriate to the Intro to Women's Studies class for undergrads.
The coursepack for the class was divided into broad subject categories so I started with those, added a few more and went subject searching in Mirlyn. I imported citations from Mirlyn into Refworks to get the bibliographic format I wanted, created a bibliography then cut and pasted the citations into the appropriate category on the wiki. Linking to the Mirlyn record is problematic. The links you get when you look up the video are based on your session and won't work later so you have to go through a few hoops to cut and paste the URL for the video.
I'm trying to get Women's Studies faculty and students interested in becoming wiki members so they can add and edit the list, too. I think anyone can add a comment now, if they have a WetPaint account. I thought I had a PhD student ready to join but so far no luck but I'm workin' on it!
Any ideas for making this process easier?
Posted by swortman at 05:36 PM | Comments (4)