Monday, 9 May 2011

Delicious

This is a very handy tool. While I was studying I kept coming across some very interesting sites with inspirational ideas that could be useful in our libraries.  I emailed the links to the people who I thought may have been interested in them as that was the only way of passing on the relevant address.  While I also emailed it to myself, that means I have to either mark it as a favourite on my computer, or trawl through old emails looking for the link.  Delicious is obviously a far better way of storing and sourcing these links for both yourself and also others who may be interested in the same sort of information.

Library Thing

I
found this very easy to sign up for and use.  It has been a great addition to the Mandurah Library online catalogue, which, when searching for an item brings up  similar genre titles, provides information and links by either author, title or tags.  Very easy to click links and discover a myriad of further reading items.

4 comments:

  1. Well done you - only 4 more weeks to do!! I've just completed week 10 so I'm all done......
    yipppeeee!!

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  2. I found LibraryThing easy to sign up for and follow also. Onto week 7 now!

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  3. I also really like the feature of LibraryThing on our library catalogue. Whenever I can I encourage library users seeking information about new titles and authors to follow the LibraryThing link. It is always surprising to discover how many don't notice this link, so I try to promote it often.

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  4. To be honest, I haven't really used LibraryThing on our library catalogue. But after doing this weeks module, I would definitely agree that íts useful!

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