delicious is a service for finding, saving and sharing links. This is sometimes called social bookmarking. Other social bookmarking services include digg, stumbleupon, and reddit.The new library subject guide pages use links stored in delicious.
- This allows us to give all staff access to our links, so they can be edited at any time, by anyone (as long as they have the password).
- Delicious allows us to import links lists into our webpages automatically, without editing them.
- Delicious uses tags, which gives us more flexibility in how our links are grouped. It also gives us powerful tools for making changes to whole groups of links at once.
How do tags work?
A tag is just a descriptive keyword applied to an item. Tags are similar to subject headings in that they organize information and make it retrievable. Unlike subject headings, tags are usually created on the fly and usually do not belong to a formal hierarchy.
- Tags are used on many websites, including LibraryThing, Flickr, and blogs.
- Many library staff have trouble getting used to the chaos of tags, but many patrons find them intuitive and useful.
- One item can have unlimited tags, and these tags can describe different aspects of the item.
When we save items on delicious, the tags we use make it possible for us to find bookmarks again. They also help improve the description of that link provided by delicious, which is useful to the whole community using the site.
This tag cloud shows all the tags used in our delicious account so far. The tags correspond to the categories and sub-categories used in our old Selected Sites pages. The larger tags have been applied to more pages.
You can access our full list of tags by clicking on “Tags,” next to the blue-headed bookmark man.
How to save a new bookmark:
The options in the right-hand menu include “Save a new bookmark.” If you click on this, you will arrive at the “Save a new bookmark” screen:
Complete, at least, the URL, title, and tags fields. Once a bookmark has been saved, you can edit this information at any time by clicking on the word “EDIT” below the title and description.
The words in the bottom right corner of the bookmark entry are the tags used for that link. The number in the top right corner is the number of other users who have saved that link. The default way these bookmarks are sorted is by date; the other way to access them, of course, is using their tags.
What to save? This delicious account is replacing our Selected Sites (which will soon be removed from the website altogether). If you stumble upon a link you believe is useful enough to save, especially if it is a difficult subject to research or a frequently asked question, go ahead and add it (even if that Selected Sites page was not your responsibility).
delicious: sign in
delicious: our account
delicious: help
From LibraryJournal: Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us
Current tag cloud:
