We just had a look at "Tagging, folksonomies, delicious and LibraryThing" on the learning 2.0 program.
I've had a del.icio.us account for a while, but seldom use it. It's one of those things: I would love to share links and sites of interest with people, but I always forget that these sharing applications exist... Like my RSS reader, it sits there and gets ignored, with a flurry of activity occurring maybe twice a year.
There are other things I really like though. LibraryThing looks brilliant. I'd been using a similar application on facebook (BooksIRead or somesuch) but found it a little frustrating and amateurish. LibraryThing seems to have a lot of info professionals and librarians lurking around to make sure that things are kept ship-shape and librarianly. The idea of having an online catalogue (properly catalogued!) of all of my books really appeals to me.
Technorati: meh, can't really see how it would be relevant unless you want to sell something to people who like buying things from blogs. Most of the blogs we checked out were thinly disguised fronts for some commercial outlet or other, disguised as a personal blog. Fortunately these are pretty blatant. There is some good stuff on there, but nothing you couldn't find by doing some minimal research elsewhere, and if you're looking for subject-specific information you're honestly better off just going with google.
NEWS: in other news, I'll be leaving West Ryde in a couple of weeks. I've been offered a job in the Westpac Business Information Centre (read: corporate library) as an "Information Specialist" (read: researcher). It's a great opportunity to use some of my research skills without having to abandon all of the experience i have in customer service, and also a chance to work in a special library which isn't in a law firm. I figure these things don't come around too often so I've jumped at it.
I'll miss West Ryde and everyone here. It was a great place to have my first experience in libraries and I'm very grateful to everyone here for showing me the ropes. With any luck I may end up working with some of them again down the track, who knows?
I've had a del.icio.us account for a while, but seldom use it. It's one of those things: I would love to share links and sites of interest with people, but I always forget that these sharing applications exist... Like my RSS reader, it sits there and gets ignored, with a flurry of activity occurring maybe twice a year.
There are other things I really like though. LibraryThing looks brilliant. I'd been using a similar application on facebook (BooksIRead or somesuch) but found it a little frustrating and amateurish. LibraryThing seems to have a lot of info professionals and librarians lurking around to make sure that things are kept ship-shape and librarianly. The idea of having an online catalogue (properly catalogued!) of all of my books really appeals to me.
Technorati: meh, can't really see how it would be relevant unless you want to sell something to people who like buying things from blogs. Most of the blogs we checked out were thinly disguised fronts for some commercial outlet or other, disguised as a personal blog. Fortunately these are pretty blatant. There is some good stuff on there, but nothing you couldn't find by doing some minimal research elsewhere, and if you're looking for subject-specific information you're honestly better off just going with google.
NEWS: in other news, I'll be leaving West Ryde in a couple of weeks. I've been offered a job in the Westpac Business Information Centre (read: corporate library) as an "Information Specialist" (read: researcher). It's a great opportunity to use some of my research skills without having to abandon all of the experience i have in customer service, and also a chance to work in a special library which isn't in a law firm. I figure these things don't come around too often so I've jumped at it.
I'll miss West Ryde and everyone here. It was a great place to have my first experience in libraries and I'm very grateful to everyone here for showing me the ropes. With any luck I may end up working with some of them again down the track, who knows?
1 comment:
It took me a while to really start using my del.icio.us account, but I now use it to save items I want to go back to - including things to read (usually reports for work). I think these tools only work if you need what they are offering - so we are all going to use a different suite of tools. This makes it more interesting.
Technorati can also be used like Google blog search - as a way of finding what is being written about on blogs - you might want to set up an alert to find out what people are saying about your library.
Ellen (PLS)
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