MLA CE Week 4 - Social Bookmarks & Tagging

I really enjoyed the Discovery readings & hands-on for our assignment this week. The optional reading Make Your Library del.icio.us: Social Bookmarking in the Stacks (Jason Griffey, 5 Weeks to a Social Library) was excellent and answered some remaining questions I had about social bookmarking. This narrated PPT provided some good del.icio.us tips, such as using FOR: del.icio.us User Name to share bookmarks and have them show up in another user’s account or embedding your bookmarks on your Web page ~ this is something I definitely want to try on the AMEDD Virtual Library Web site. There are a number of potential library applications to support the delivery of reference services that I hope to share with the medical librarians in the AMEDD MEDLI-NET network of libraries. del.icio.us as a bookmark management tool and the portability of always being just a click away from having your booksmarks when switching among PCs is a real plus for those of us who do one-on-one instruction. I created a del.icio.us account and bookmarked & tagged about 11 sites. Since I’m fairly structured and began my career as a cataloger, I prefer bundling my bookmarks. I bookmarked one of the pages on the Peeps Pathfinder Wiki, bookmarked sites that had been bookmarked by others, and added a link to my del.icio.us. account [http://del.icio.us/AwebPhile] on My Web 2.0 Conspectus