INTRODUCTION REDESIGNED httpdelicious VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK BEST PRACTICES AND CONCLUSIONS Give careful thought to the terms used for tags Investigate which tags other users have ID: 227571
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ORIGINAL “STATIC” WEBPAGE
INTRODUCTION
REDESIGNED “http://del.icio.us” VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK
BEST PRACTICES AND CONCLUSIONS
Give careful thought to the terms used for tags.
Investigate
which
tags other users have
created.
Add multiple tags and bundles to maintain a well-rounded page and functional
site.
Create a “link roll” to display on your library’s
webpage.
Encourage students to create or save the library’s bookmarks to their own
page.
Statistics at East Carolina University suggest the migration to del.icio.us increases webpage hits.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Farkas, Meredith. "Isn't it Del.icio.us?" American Libraries 39.4 (2008): 32. Hargadon, Steve. "Best of Social Bookmarking." School Library Journal 53.12 (2007): 20. Pack, Thomas. "A ‘Del.icio.us' Way to use Bookmarks." Information Today 24.4 (2007): 36-7. Rethlefsen, Melissa L. "Tags Help make Libraries Del.icio.us." Library Journal (1976) 132.15 (2007): 26-8. Stirk, Kate. "Social Bookmarking using Del.icio.us." Georgia Library Quarterly 43.3 (2006): 7-8. Trexler, Sally. "Social Bookmarking with Del.icio.us." Information Searcher 16.3 (2006): 22-7.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Kendall Wooden (woodenk@ecu.edu), Library Technician and member of the Web Development Team, for his invaluable expertise creating and migrating website content to http://del.icio.us.
Using del.icio.us Bookmarks and Tags to Create a Virtual Reference Desk
Mark Sanders (sandersm@ecu.edu) – East Carolina University
Social bookmarking and tagging are some of the most popular Web 2.0 trends to emerge in recent years. One of the largest social bookmarking sites is
http://del.icio.us
, where users can bookmark and tag websites with keyword descriptors to organize and foster discovery. At East Carolina University’s Joyner Library, the Reference Department recently migrated the Virtual Reference Desk, a static webpage of ready reference website links, to de.licio.us. The result is a more intuitive, dynamic site that invites user participation and encourages interactivity.
“Link
Roll
” embedded in library’s webpage
ECU Joyner Library’s del.icio.us page for “Country Resources
”
SET UP YOUR OWN
Step 1: Create a free account at
http://
del.icio.us
. You’ll
be prompted
for a
username, password and email
address.
Step 2: Install the
Del.icio.us
toolbar for your browser to
make saving bookmarks easier.
Step 3: Import any existing bookmarks you wish to save or simply visit websites and add them using the
toolbar.
Step 4: Add tags, create bundles of subject categories to group sites, embed the “link roll” into your library’s webpage.