Delicious is a social bookmarking tool that is a useful way to keep track of and share websites. How it works is that instead of bookmarking or favouriting a website in your browser, you bookmark it in delicious. You create a free account for yourself and install a small plugin to your browser that allows you to add them to your delicious account.
One of the useful features is that you can tag the websites that you are adding. This means that for instance, if I was adding this blog to delicious I could tag it with the words library or blog. When I am looking at all my saved websites, I could then look at all the sites that I have tagged with "library."
The social part of this tool comes with the ability to look at the sites other people have tagged with the same tags that I have. For instance, I could look at all the sites people have tagged with library so see if there are sites that I might be interested in.
I like using delicious because it means that I have access to my bookmarks from any computer whether at home or at work or when I am traveling. I can also share my bookmarks with others easily. I can either share a link to my entire account or I can send a link to a tagged list of bookmarks.
When we are working in the Library, we often come across interesting sites that we would like to keep track of and to share. I created an account for the Library quite a while ago and it appears under Internet Links on the Library website. Here is a link to the Library's delicious account:
http://delicious.com/eclinfoAnd here's an example of linking to a specific tagged list:
http://delicious.com/eclinfo/images
We spent a lot of time in the month of July welcoming new students! It is always great to meet them and hear their excitement about starting on this new chapter of their lives. We try to put out displays that show them the wide variety of material that we have in the Library and to encourage the students to come visit us at the Info Desk if they have any questions.
We had a little problem with our skeleton - his wheels broke. So here is lying behind the Circ Desk waiting to be fixed. Sammy (Sammy Styx is his full name) gave a little start to the staff in the morning when they came and found a body lying on the floor! The staff in the Library all work hard to make sure that the resources in the Library are in good condition for everyone to use. This sometimes requires some creativity on our part.
Michelle was not able to find replacement casters for his existing base so she made a whole new base and then screwed the old base to it. Now Sammy has a nice new stand. It is much sturdier than the old stand and is easier to roll. 
Here he is - ready to be used again! Michelle also tightened his screws which helped to improve his posture a bit. Thanks Michelle! I guess that just leaves me to go through and assess all the triage books that are in my office:(
2) Google has new search options available. After doing a search in Google, there is link that says show options - I have circled it below.
It allows you to do things like limit to recent results, or for the results to be displayed in what they are calling a "Wonder wheel" which I have put a screen shot of below. Just an interesting new feature that I came across.
As always, comments and questions are welcome!
