Week 6: Social Bookmarking & Book Sharing

                Thing #13: Delicious

DELICIOUS

                http://delicious.com/

                Delicious is a social bookmarking site. What, you may ask, is a social bookmark? Well, you know how you can bookmark sites that you visit frequently in your browser? Social bookmarking is the Web 2.0 way to bookmark! You can share sites you love with other users, and get recommendations for good stuff on the Net for yourself. Delicious is one of the oldest social bookmarking sites. Users create “stacks” which are lists of bookmarks for particular types of sites, and then Delicious makes its own stacks of categories for easier browsing. You can also search for particular links, for example “public libraries”, but it can be hard to narrow down the thousands of results you get, so Delicious is better for category browsing than particular searches.

                Thing #14: Library Thing

LIBRARY THING

                http://www.librarything.com/

                Library Thing is for all you book nerds out there (you know who you are)! Catalog your book collection and share it with others, and get others’ suggestions on what they love to read. You can also join groups for particular genres, like children’s books, science fiction, and there’s even a group for Harry Potter lovers. In the “talk” area there are several discussions going on about book-related topics, and there is a “local” tab for book events going on in any area of the country you choose. In the top right corner, you can also search the site for reviews of specific books. I personally tried to stump the system by putting in very obscure titles; and while they didn’t all have reviews (the majority did), they did all have records in Library Thing, with the option to add them to my library and review them myself. So this is also a great collection development tool for librarians looking for honest opinions of those on-the-fence titles!

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