Thing 14: Delicious

LOVE Delicious.

Love it love it love it.

I had an account back when you had to find it by gong to www.del.ici.ous-- or something like that! Anyways, I lost the user id and password and started over! My current one is http://delicious.com/ajensen08

Although I love having my bookmarks available anywhere I go and I like using it for sharing with others, the newest way I have used Delicious is to show it my husband who is in IT and business. I showed him how we can search the bookmarked sites for info. For example, I searched Visual Studio 2008 and it came up with LOTS of great sites and blogs for him to check out while he looks for info on Visual Studio.

Thing 13: Tagging

I think tagging is wonderful in the library. Since many middle school and high school kids (and adults too) already understand tagging, using it is helpful to them. It can also be used as a bridge to teach them about subject headings, which are really just controlled-vocabulary tags, anyways. Tagging applications on library OPACs are just another way to help patrons find what they are looking for in the library. I think an investment in tagging is worth the time it takes! I thnk we can even trust patrons to tag for us in some cases--although we may have to have editing rights in case someone tags something in a negative manner like "Mrs. Cope's stupid novel circle book.") :-)

I use tagging now on Delicious and in my blogs mostly to help me find something (by searching) if I have to go back and find it.