Del.icio.us and the library web page

If anyone is using del.icio.us at their library, specifically as a component of their webpage, please email at roycekitts@gmail.com

I have some interest at my library and need to show some good examples.
Even if del.icio.us was a failure for you let me know that too.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by James Day on May 3, 2007 at 10:49am
I moved all important Library pages and our Internet Guide links to del.icio.us. But right now, it is "unofficial" since we haven't announced it or incorporated it into the library website. The links are at http://del.icio.us/SeminoleCountyLibrary.
Permalink Reply by Mary on August 30, 2007 at 5:10pm
Hi James,

Your Delicious sites look wonderful.
Permalink Reply by Kristin on May 3, 2007 at 12:31pm
Some of my colleagues and I use Del.icio.us and FURL in addition to our web resources. See for example this course research guide where I select the most relevant sources for the guide, but link out to my del.icio.us long-list of additional sources: http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/find/guides/courses/?guide_...
As soon as our web development software allows us more flexibility to add RSS feeds, I'll add RSS feeds to my research guides to specifically tagged Del.icio.us and FURL lists.
Good luck and have fun!
Permalink Reply by Mary on August 30, 2007 at 5:14pm
Your site looks wonderful? I mean it doesn't look like the usual Delicious site with the list and how many others have the same thing? it looks more like the guides from your library web page?
Permalink Reply by Janice Banser on May 3, 2007 at 10:45pm
Hi Royce,

The WebJunction listserv, Web4lib, has a big discussion on just this topic. I am planning on using delicious for my library's current "suggested web links" page, which is somewhat out of date and badly in need of some TLC.

I'll be interested to watch the discussion here too.

Cheers
Permalink Reply by Joanna Aegard on May 4, 2007 at 10:14pm
Hi Royce...just emailled ya. My site is del.icio.us!!!
Permalink Reply by Troy Swanson on May 5, 2007 at 12:01am
This isn't my library's site, but on my own research site, I use an RSS feed parser to feed by del.icio.us links into my site. Here's an example: http://troyswanson.pbwiki.com/Dissertation%20Ideas (scroll down, and you will see the links. You may have to enable the java script on the page at the bottom of the page...this is a pbwiki issue.) I would like to eventually move my library's research guides into del.icio.us, utilize the rss feeds by tags, and use a parser (http://feed2js.org/) to put the feeds into our Web site. I haven't quite made it this far yet.
Permalink Reply by Safety Neal on May 5, 2007 at 1:22pm
We recently added a widget from AddThis to our beta catalog design that allows users to add links to bibliographic records to a variety of social bookmarking sites, including del.icio.us. I'm attaching an image of how it looks in our beta catalog.

Penn Tags is the best example of adding social bookmarking utility to a catalog that I've seen. ACRLblog has a post about tagging and libraries from last year.
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Permalink Reply by Troy Swanson on May 6, 2007 at 6:49pm
AddThis looks very cool. Thanks!
Permalink Reply by Rebecca Hedreen on May 9, 2007 at 11:54am
I switched my test subject guide (physics) from a Feed2js version of my del.icio.us links to a native del.icio.us scripting. I'm not all the way happy with the formating--the bullets don't always show up properly, but I like having just the one service to depend on.
http://library.southernct.edu/physbib.htm
Permalink Reply by Bob Kosovsky on May 18, 2007 at 10:24am
We are about to use del.icio.us and it has almost nothing to do with our website.

Up to now, we have had 4 phone reference points for 4 separate units of Music, Dance, Theater, and Sound Recordings. Because of decreasing numbers of phone calls (a phenomenon noted by many), we have decided to save staff time by having all calls go to a central phone. Instead of 4 staff on phone duty, now there will be only one. But the librarians answering this phone will need to have knowledge of 4 different disciplines.

To aid them, the committee in charge of implementing this combined phone reference system chose to use del.icio.us, in part because of the ease of use for searching a limited number of tested resources, and because of the tagging features.

Although our del.icio.us account is available to all, many of the links lead to internal pages which are accessible only within our campus, so I'm not sure how useful it will be to the public.

But it will be interesting to see how staff reacts to it. If the reaction is positive, that pushes us a tiny bit further into general acceptance of L2 ideas and techniques.
Permalink Reply by Mary on August 17, 2007 at 3:59pm
I have the same question. I am going to use Delicious for my research guides. Has any tried it? If so can you share the URL? I want to see how you did it?

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