Delicious

[Nozzi]

Hello All. I am a librarian in academic library and I'm interested to know if anybody out there has in some way used Delicious.com in their library. What are the benefits of using this tool especially insofar as providing an efficient service to your users is concerned. What are examples of situations where this tool can be used effectively?

[Gary Green]

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

[Nozzi]

Thanks Gary. This indeed is very helpful!

[David Renfree]

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.

[cary cox]

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.

[Rienk Withaar]

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

[Aaron Tay]

Have you seen this

del.icio.us libraries ?

or

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

[Paul Hatch]

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.

[Gary Green]

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.