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Socialize your books
LibraryThing's social features are similar to those of del.icio.us—users can browse by user or tag—but with some extras. For every book entered into LibraryThing, the display shows top tags in a tag cloud, book ratings as rated by LibraryThing members, and recommended books based on similarly tagged items and ratings.
Reviews also help with readers' advisory. Libraries can select books and write short or long evaluations. Owing to the success of LibraryThing, it recently released LibraryThing for Libraries, a JavaScript-based add-on that imports LibraryThing data into library catalogs. Tim Spalding, LibraryThing founder, says four or five dozen institutions have shown interest. The first library to go live was the Danbury Library, CT, in May 2007 [see “LibraryThing for Libraries,” LJ netConnect, Summer 2007, p. 3].
LibraryThing for Libraries currently focuses on adding aggregate tag data and recommendations from LibraryThing to library catalogs but may integrate patron tagging as well. Despite continuing challenges, Spalding observes, “Ultimately, I think we've proved that even the most locked-down systems can be opened up.”
Other libraries and library vendors have responded. One impressive venture is PennTags, the University of Pennsylvania's own self-hosted social bookmarking application. PennTags not only acts like a typical social bookmarking application, it also is integrated directly into the library's online catalog. Catalog records show tags, and library patrons can use PennTags to create resource lists for class projects easily. Because it is campus-specific, PennTags doesn't capitalize on the power of mass tagging in the same way LibraryThing does, but it has been successful for student and faculty personal use
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Marie KigosHow libraries can use social bookmarking to boost patron use of libraries.
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darkdragon474This is a LJ article about libraries using Delicious and tags.
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Del.icio.us lets users bookmark web pages for themselves and others, check out what others bookmark, and organize bookmarks in one place for portability. Besides its well-known basic tagging and bookmarking capabilities, del.icio.us offers a built-in tool set and application programming interface (API) that let libraries do practically anything with their data. Its tag roll and link roll features—which update steadily—provide any account user with a snippet of JavaScript for any web page or blog, allowing easy access to a library's del.icio.us links.
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Elizabeth AchorThis web site article suggests that libraries can use the social tagging to help patrons choose and recommend books. I think my students would love this!
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LibraryThing's social features are similar to those of del.icio.us—users can browse by user or tag—but with some extras. For every book entered into LibraryThing, the display shows top tags in a tag cloud, book ratings as rated by LibraryThing members, and recommended books based on similarly tagged items and ratings.
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LibraryThing for Libraries currently focuses on adding aggregate tag data and recommendations from LibraryThing to library catalogs but may integrate patron tagging as well. Despite continuing challenges, Spalding observes, “Ultimately, I think we've proved that even the most locked-down systems can be opened up.”
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integrated directly into the library's online catalog. Catalog records show tags, and library patrons can use PennTags to create resource lists for class projects easily.
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Tagging and social bookmarking tools—whether to improve accessibility of library materials, to introduce patrons to new tools, or to make creating subject guides easier for staff—empower users and staffers in new ways
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Libraries like the Thunder Bay Public Library, Ont., and the Nashville Public Library have del.icio.us tag clouds rolled on their web site, so patrons can find information on any number of topics just by clicking on a tag.
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del.icio.us link rolls to replace or supplement traditional subject guides and pathfinders.
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But why is using social bookmarking tools better than traditional pathfinders and subject guides? It lowers barriers for participation, both for library patrons and staff.
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del.icio.us helps “less tech-savvy librarians have an equal voice in the collection,” instead of having one or two librarians editing a static web page.
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Katja BroddessonAbout tagging and social bookmarking
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Carli SpinaLibrary Journal article on tagging and social bookmarking.
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Diane BSocial bookmarking and tagging boost participation. By Melissa L. Rethlefsen
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organize bookmarks in one place for portability
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Tagging is often controversial among librarians, largely because adding keywords to resources lacks authority control.
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Vicki PetersSchool libraries use LibraryThing to showcase new and recommended books for different reading levels or genres. Widgets let students view book jacket images when browsing online.
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Barley Snyder LibraryDiscusses how libraries use social bookmarking (and tagging) tools for a number of different reasons. Help find resources with value, increase participation of entire library staff in activity. Also discusses UPenn's tagging project.
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Colleen OstiguyGood article on the uses of Delicious in libraries. Actually got me started thinking about delicious.
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Terri WilsonTraditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use.
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Amanda RunyonUses of social bookmarking: Lowered barriers to participation, equal voice in collection development, replacing pathfinders and research guides.
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Robert RichardsMelissa L. Rethlefsen argues that social bookmarking encourages library patrons and staff to participate actively in the life of the library.
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Kama SiegelTraditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use.
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Kathy DarvilTraditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use.
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Mary KoshollekLibrary Journal article on Social Bookmarking phenomenon in Librari3es.
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Barbara FritschelTraditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use.
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KH LibraryArticle online Library Journal website re Tags Libraries Delicious
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Stephanie CrawfordTraditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use.
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Pru Mitchell9/15/2007 - Library Journal
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“task tagging”—tags that are designed for a specific purpose or audience—can be especially useful.
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“You need to structure a tagging system so that people want to tag.
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Now social bookmarking and tagging tools help librarians bridge the gap between the library's need to offer authoritative, well-organized information and their patrons' web experience.
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del.icio.us helps “less tech-savvy librarians have an equal voice in the collection,” instead of having one or two librarians editing a static web page
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tags allow library staff to assign worthy links multiple tags in what Staley calls “plain language.”
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Tagging is often controversial among librarians, largely because adding keywords to resources lacks authority control.
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For example, school and academic librarians create tags specific to particular classes.
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patrons—especially students—can contribute link suggestions.
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For each link in del.icio.us, users can track who else bookmarked that link and how they tagged it
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Springshare, a company owned by Slaven Zivkovic and billing itself as providing “practical, easy-to-use Web 2.0 tools for libraries and educational institutions,” has developed a new library-oriented social bookmarking application called LibMarks. Though not as developed as Springshare's other Library 2.0 offering, LibGuides, LibMarks is a Digg-like tool that lets users bookmark, rate, and tag web sites. Libraries interested in experimenting with a local social bookmarking tool but without the staff to design one afresh or install an open source option like Scuttle might look to LibMarks.
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Justin TylerTags help make libraries Del.icio.us [electronic resource] / Melissa L. Rethlefsen. -- [S.l.] : Reed business Information, 2007. -- 1 Web page ; col. -- Mode of Access: World Wide Web (http://snurl.com/u3krd). -- Title from resource. -- "Library Journal, 9/15/2007". -- Desc. based on contents viewed Jan. 15, 2010.
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Now social bookmarking and tagging tools help librarians bridge the gap between the library's need to offer authoritative, well-organized information and their patrons' web experience.
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Crystal NewellArticle describing the usefulness of del.icio.us and LibraryThing, among others, for libraries.
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Fulgencio Murcia BelmonteTraditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use.
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rachelatibrcTraditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use.
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authoritative, well-organized information
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select suitable material, to post it without delay, and to provide access points and comments on content,”
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Del.icio.us lets users bookmark web pages for themselves and others, check out what others bookmark, and organize bookmarks in one place for portability.
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staff use del.icio.us to add links like “timely news items or local students' assignment topics.”
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school and academic librarians create tags specific to particular classes.
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use the platform's tag bundles, a method of grouping tags under a topic heading, to organize links to correspond with school subjects.
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