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another interesting visualization tool

As I mentioned the other day, del.icio.us has become even more of an outboard brain for me lately, especially with our website redesign in full swing. Anytime I’m confronted with even the most minuscule UI issue (what to put on the form submission button? “submit”, “go”, “search”?), I turn to a handful of UX/design favourites [...]


an (already old) article on social bookmarking

Earlier this year, I wrote an article for Feliciter, the magazine of the Canadian Library Association, for a themed issue on libraries and social software. My article, entitled “The Brave New World of Social Bookmarking: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Were Too Afraid to Ask” (pithy titles are not my strong suit) is [...]


del.icio.us libraries?

From Joanne, a blogwithoutalibrary.net reader:
Do you know of any public libraries using del.icio.us as an alternative to list of recommended websites? We’re thinking of doing this and are curious to know if/how others are doing it.
A great question! I’m curious about academic libraries using del.icio.us too. If your library is on del.icio.us, do let [...]


OLA: Connections, not Categories: Applying Social Networking Concepts to Information Organization

OLA Super Conference
Presenter: M.J. D’Elia, University of Guelph
Session focus:
- to provide a broader pic of information organization
- what’s going on in the non-library world & what we can appropriate for our own uses
- where we need to go in the future
- blogs, wikis, etc. and libraries – fad or future?
- three main ways to [...]