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Summing up: The Good and the Bad
So much to talk about! Some of the libraries we’ve looked at in our case studies have done great things with social software that I think add real value to library services. Among the projects that seem the most useful are:
critical mass
After reading through this week’s material a few things come to mind. First of all, as Ellyssa Kroski explains, folksonomies won’t replace LC classification for traditional libraries. But since the web would be impossible to classify in this traditional way, folksonomies are pretty handy. What they lose out on in hierarchical searching, they make up for by simply getting the job done.
Social Bookmarking Group Project; Part 1; Introduction
By Amy Thorne, Andrea Cameron, Grant O’Grady, and Pauline Dewan
Social Bookmarking Group project: Part 2, Why internal ?
Why Internal is a Very Good Question…
Social Bookmarking Group Project Part 3: Choice of Software
Why
did we Choose Furl?
After surveying a number of different
software options, including del.icio.us, connotea, citeulike and Zotero, we
settled on furl. It has the cleanest interface, and offers the right blend of
2.0 technology and traditional search capability.
Social Bookmarking Group Project Part 4: How-To
How
to Use the Reader’s Advisory Furl Account
guidelines to our staff wiki, explaining how the site works and some best
practices for posting reviews. Here is what the guidelines will look like:
to Use the Reader’s Advisory Furl Account
Week 7: "Tag, you're it!" Why libraries should be "it".
I've found this week's topic to be really intriguing. I've only recently (well, within the last year or so) gotten into the tagging thing but really hadn't thought about it too much. Though I realized it was a very social thing to do, I really didn't connect it to LIS at all and Lee Rainie's article really showed me the ways in which tagging grew up from LIS. It seems only reasonable that it come back to LIS, too, in that sense.
Week 7: Social Bookmarking -- So Beneficial!
Using social bookmarks is a win-win situation. What other technology allows people to be altruistic when they are doing something for themselves!
Tag team back again
Similar to Angie's statement in her blog, I also admit to slacking a little on the whole tagging through del.icio.us. Though I'm blaming this on the fact that I hadn't used it before and therefore, didn't attribute personal value to tagging, out of ignorance. For years I have been been a slave to bookmarking favourites on my computer, creating a library of categories and hoarding websites with pride. However, earlier this summer something happened... my computer crashed, and I lost everything.
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking places people, not data, at the centre of the Internet. By linking people with each other, social software creates communities.