Wednesday, March 19, 2008

mmm....delicious

I think Delicious has alot of potential for doing research in a library setting and if your were a student and needed quick links to encyclopedic databases for research papers. I found that the HowStuffWorks is one that would be really helpful for alot of the random questions received at the reference desk. I usually just go straight to Wikipedia, but sometimes you have to wonder about the accuracy of the information on there. I have been using delicious for a little while now, but when you work at a branch where desk hours are always changing and not everyone uses the same delicious account it becomes a pain to pull up your account every time you get on desk or are helping a patron. I think It would be cool to have a collected delicious account at each branch that we always keep pulled up on the computer just like people do with the catalogue.

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