smore delicious tools
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Presentation for 2008 TCLC Summer Camp outlining library uses for the social bookmarking site delicious and the Google Custom Search Engine.TRANSCRIPT
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