Week 4 - Social bookmarking

I've been using del.icio.us for awhile now, so I was happy that this week's assignment was pretty much done when I received it in my e-mail. As you can see, from the date of this post, I'm still behind with the assignments, and I was pretty much done when I started. Go figure. Blogging takes time, and I have precious little of that where I work. We have nitty gritty things to do here like literature searches, Docline, regular library maintenance, statistical record keeping (wow, has that mushroomed!), and more... Okay, enough whining.

I was thrilled to find del.icio.us because it meant having all my bookmarks available to me at all times from any PC. And I have to work in 6, count them, 6 different library locations. Plus home, if I ever feel like booting up. And, there's that added bonus of setting up bundles for friends or bosses or colleagues so when you come across something you think they'd really like to read, you can stick it there, and they can find it. No one has taken me up on that yet...

My library recently transferred all of its cool and useful (well, we think they're cool and useful) links to del.icio.us accounts and put them up for our patrons perusal. The transfer is going to make our lives as web tenders so much easier. Adding new items, and editing are soooo easy in delicious (are they going to get rid of these dumb periods????) as opposed to what we used to have to do in Content Management. I say amen.

Research assistance. Oh, yeah. That's a no-brainer. Click, add your stuff, bundle away, and then search for your stuff if necessary. Connotea I guess would be the way to go for scientists, but delicious would work, too.