Do you think social bookmarking could be beneficial to the LIS field? Why or why not?

Social bookmarking is another way to aggregate information. The collective 'hive' vets and organizes information to the benefit of other information seekers. This collective effort accomplishes a herculean task that cannot be left solely to information professionals.

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.

o    What advantages to social tagging do you see for libraries?

http://delicious.com/jennapbird  so i hope this works, let me know if it doesn't.

My delicious bookmarks can be found at http://delicious.com/csharifi

I've been using delicious for quite a while, so there are a lot of tags in there. I really love delicious, but until I listened to this week's lecture and read the readings, I wasn't using it to its full potential. I really like the tag bundles.

Here is my delicious page: http://delicious.com/cunninghaml/

And you can also see my RSS feed for our class tag on my Netvibes page here: http://www.netvibes.com/cunninghamlynn

Compare the features and functionality of Delicious and StumbleUpon and discuss.

What uses of delicious do you see your library/organization adopting?

Do you think social bookmarking could be beneficial to the LIS field? Why or why not?

I absolutely think social bookmarking could be beneficial to the LIS field. Why? Because it is a way to retrieve information faster and to find items that you on your own may not have found on your own. 

Hi Everyone -

Please check out my del.icio.us.  Everything that has been tagged for this class so far has the 'LIBR246-11' tag as per assignment directions.