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s’more delicious sites
TCLC Summer Camp
July 16, 2008
Lianne Hartman
Reference/Instruction Librarian
J Wynia
Selecting Organizing Sharing
• del.icio.us– Website for online social bookmarking– You can integrate it with your browser
• Google Custom Search Engine (CSE)– Create mini-Internets of websites you choose– Get a search box into those sites
Social Bookmarking
Common Craft guys explain it better
www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
Ei! Krumpelramson
Let’s Build It!• Open Firefox
• Go to delicious.com
• Click on Get Started or Register
• Register
• Wait on the first page
The Fine Art of Tagging
• Develop your own subject headings
• Tags can be anything: description, action, person
cambodia4kidsorg
Don’t be a Tag Hog! Share!
• Find out the username of the person next to you
• Tag a site with for:his/her name
hthg1983
gratuitous cute animal picture
Discovery• Use delicious to find sites
recommended by other people
• Search all tags on delicious
• Create a network to share with friends, family, colleagues, others with similar interests
Tagging in the Stacks
• Working with a student? Recommending a lot of sites?
- Tag them with the student’s name
• Standard URLs
• http://del.icio.us/GMCLibrarian/Barbara
• Courses, faculty members, who/what else?
Fancy delicious• RSS Feeds available for all of your tags
• RSS2HTML www.rss2html.com
• Use to create subject guides, course guides, etc.– Advantage: able to update on-the-fly– Disadvantage: time to set up initially
back at the library…• Open Firefox
– If you don’t have Firefox, go to getfirefox.com
• Go to delicious.com– Login with username/password you created
today– Go to Help– Select Firefox Bookmarks Extension
Summer Camp is In-Tents
Search me.• Create your own corner of the web
–Google Custom SearchGoogle.com/cse
–RollyoRollyo.com
Ultimate Recipe Search
• http://allrecipes.com/*
• http://foodnetwork.com/*
• http://epicurious.com/*ninahale
Let’s Customize!
http://www.google.com/cse
Why?• Already identified sites that are
useful
• Cut down number of results
• Guide students to resources you know will be helpful
Examples• Reeves Library @ Moravian College
http://home.moravian.edu/public/reeves/
research/web/websubject.htm• Education Research and Reports
http://tinyurl.com/6ccn7m
Thank you!
If you get stuck, let me know. I’d be happy to unstick you.
Lianneah@gmail.com