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Permalink Reply by Gary Green on June 12, 2009 at 7:20am

Hi Nozzi
An option we are looking at is using an RSS feed to pull through relevant delicious.com bookmarks to a page dealing with a particular subject. This could be done based on the tags you use. We already have pages of web links on our website ( http://tinyurl.com/surreylibrarylinks ) for particular subjects and using delicious.com could remove the need to constantly update the webpage manually.
Gary

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Permalink Reply by Nozzi on June 12, 2009 at 9:01am

Thanks Gary. This indeed is very helpful!

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Permalink Reply by David Renfree on June 12, 2009 at 6:13pm

Hi Nozzi

I'm also using an RSS feed to pull through relevant bookmarks; you can see them on the right hand side of my blog - http://bcftcschildhoodeducation.blogspot.com - under the heading 'Useful articles'. Basically I tag news stories which will be of interest to students, but which I don't feel I can turn into the subject of a whole post.

I've recently done a survey of our students' interaction with Web 2.0 services which I'll upload to Slideshare shortly; one of the questions was to ask them which social bookmarking services they use - the overwhelming response was that they didn't use them, indeed most had never heard of them.

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Permalink Reply by cary cox on June 23, 2009 at 1:56pm

We are a public library, but we have put useful links for our community in our delicious account and a link to that account on our website.

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Permalink Reply by Rienk Withaar on July 15, 2009 at 9:56am

Hi Nozzi,

We have set up a delicious account and produced a widget (check out the delicious cloud at http://www.netvibes.com/rienkwithaar), but I am not sure how much it is used.

Best,

Rienk

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Permalink Reply by Aaron Tay on July 17, 2009 at 9:09pm

Have you seen this

del.icio.us libraries ?

or

Delicious Subject Guides: Maintaining Subject Guides Using a Social...

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Permalink Reply by Paul Hatch on July 27, 2009 at 9:55am

Although we don't need such a tool, because our Online Reference Library is partly a big bookmarks database. But, having said that, I do use it now as a duplicate/mirror that I can mess about with (free of corporate constraint and manual update problems!). Its not actually my favorite online bookmarker (that would be Netvous), however, delicious is so ubiquitous!
I initially found delicious awkward to use, but getting the Firefox Addons changed all that.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Green on July 27, 2009 at 11:36am

Expanding on my comments above, we've just started a blog (www.surreylibraries.wordpress.com) primarily for Surrey Library events/promos around the British Science Festival and it pulls in links from delicious that might be of use to our users. They're limited by a tag 'publicinfo', as we use delicious to bookmark current awareness web pages for staff too.

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