Do you think social bookmarking could be beneficial to the LIS field? Why or why not?
Bookmarks and tags or folksomony and keywords are giving users the opportunity to create their own controlled vocabularies. Social bookmarking in the form of Citeulike and Delicious is beneficial to the LIS field as they can provide a means for librarians in academic libraries to offer resource tools for higher education to both students and faculty by providing the ability to access information in what is quickly becoming a virtual teaching and learning environment.
The traditional sources of information provided by libraries such as catalogs and ibliographies are being replaced by these organizational tools, which allow librarians to store, organize, search, manage, and retrieve bookmarks of web pages and scholarly papers from the Internet by using Delicious, Citeulike and others. These tools allows librarians to create a significant value-added service for your students.
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I agree that the format of pathfinders we are providing users are transforming. Instead of directing them to a static website of links, we can direct patrons to delicious where they can access related websites through tags.
My concern is that citeulike could lead to less creativity in research. Right now, if I go straight to the databases and do my own research, I am using my own path, pulling down my own articles, and synthesizing my own theses based on my lit. review of what I have retrieved. I know the same could be said of sifting through the tagged works in CiteULike . . . I tried using CiteULike for a project and ended up just going back to the databases. I know it's slower, but for me it feels more genuine.
I also mention in a comment to mmabbett that I have some reservations about some research becoming popular via tagging and other excellent research going largely unnoticed, as well as students taking the easy route by pulling down all the popular citations under the assumption that these are the best on the subject . . .
I think there is definitely a place for citeulike, but I'm not sure where that is for me (yet).