delicious and the library

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/eclinfo

And here's an example of linking to a specific tagged list:

http://delicious.com/eclinfo/images