Social Bookmarking Tools

Here are some other social bookmarking tools for you to explore:

CiteULike (articles)

Connotea (articles)

Flickr (images)

FreeGovInfo (EPA government documents)

LibraryThing (books)

PennTags (library catalog records)

Podcast.com (podcasts)

ScribD (documents)

Slideshare (powerpoint presentations)

YouTube (video)

Do you have some other favorite sites? Let your fellow participants know by adding a comment to this post!

del.icio.us Examples

Check out some of these groups' del.icio.us sites to see how they're making use of the tool:

Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)*

GLBT Roundtable of the American Library Association

Osceola Library System*

Jenny Levine (The Shifted Librarian)

(*Have a look at how they bundle their bookmarks into categories).

Blogs

The following list of blogs is not extensive, but it's a start. These should give you some ideas for content and a chance to look at variations (dp)

Professional Blogs

ACRL
http://acrlblog.org/

The Ubiquitous Librarian
http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/

Ann Arbor District Library
http://www.aadl.org/

Award Winners

2007 The Edublog Awards
http://edublogawards.com/2007/

University of California Blogs

UC Berkeley
http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/

UCI
See the Public Services page for more local blogs

• d e a t h p e n a l t y
  
• UC Irvine Education Resources
• Cynthia's Blog

Some links to more Web 2.0

YouTube

Building Academic Library 2.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_uOKFhoznI
This is the UC Berkeley Library 2.0 keynote speaker, Meredith Farkas.

Integration of Web 2.0 into Conferences

Academic Library 2.0
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LAUC/academiclibrary20/schedule.html
Take a look at how this site uses Blogs, YouTube and PowerPoint. It's not perfect, but it's a good start for UC.

Stephen Abram, SLA Pres, on 2.0 Learning Programs

Hear what Stephen Abram, President-Elect of SLA, says about learning 2.0 programs and new technologies. Some question he answers:

1) What are the big changes for libraries that a 23 Things program addresses?
2) What would you say to staff who are trying to fit the program into their day?
3) What would you say to a group about to embark on a Learning 2.0 program?



If you like what he has to say, subscribe to the RSS feed for his blog, Stephen's Lighthouse.