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Librarians are so careful about what is bought for the print collection, but then we watch our googlers race around the Internet among unedited and ill-founded and repetitive single-page resources. [Using del.icio.us] is our attempt to select suitable material, to post it without delay, and to provide access points and comments on content,”

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authoritative, well-organized information

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Now social bookmarking and tagging tools help librarians bridge the gap between the library's need to offer authoritative, well-organized information and their patrons' web experience.

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select suitable material, to post it without delay, and to provide access points and comments on content,”

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Del.icio.us lets users bookmark web pages for themselves and others, check out what others bookmark, and organize bookmarks in one place for portability.

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del.icio.us helps “less tech-savvy librarians have an equal voice in the collection,” instead of having one or two librarians editing a static web page

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staff use del.icio.us to add links like “timely news items or local students' assignment topics.”

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tags allow library staff to assign worthy links multiple tags in what Staley calls “plain language.”

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Tagging is often controversial among librarians, largely because adding keywords to resources lacks authority control.

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school and academic librarians create tags specific to particular classes.

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use the platform's tag bundles, a method of grouping tags under a topic heading, to organize links to correspond with school subjects.

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For example, school and academic librarians create tags specific to particular classes.

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patrons—especially students—can contribute link suggestions.

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For each link in del.icio.us, users can track who else bookmarked that link and how they tagged it

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Springshare, a company owned by Slaven Zivkovic and billing itself as providing “practical, easy-to-use Web 2.0 tools for libraries and educational institutions,” has developed a new library-oriented social bookmarking application called LibMarks. Though not as developed as Springshare's other Library 2.0 offering, LibGuides, LibMarks is a Digg-like tool that lets users bookmark, rate, and tag web sites. Libraries interested in experimenting with a local social bookmarking tool but without the staff to design one afresh or install an open source option like Scuttle might look to LibMarks.

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