12th Entry - Presentation on Web 2.0 - Social Bookmarking

I did my presentation which is a mini case study. Search for information on the use of Web 2.0 technologies in a particular library from journal papers and present my findings in the class.My Topic is Social Bookmarking, example: CiteULink, Delicious.

Paper 1:
Social Bookmarking in Academic Libraries: Trends and Applications
By Carla S. Redden
Library Coordinator for Maysville Community and
Technical College. Recipient of a Masters in Library and Information
Science from the University of Kentucky School of Library and
Information Science

Paper 2:
Social Bookmarking for Scholarly Digital Libraries
By Umer Farooq,Yang Song, John M. Carroll,
and C. Lee Giles
Pennsylvania State University

Both papers are discussed on different aspect under social bookmarking.

1st Paper will examine:

• How some academic libraries have utilized and implemented social bookmarking
• The potential ways in which the Web 2.0 concept can increasingly become used to further support learning and
• Collaboration within and among libraries as well as exploring several issues and challenges libraries face in utilizing social tagging.
  

2nd Paper will examine:

• Exploration of the potential utilization of social bookmarking web sites by academic libraries.
• To create accounts for bookmarking online content, provide academic libraries tools to collaborate and network, organize and share electronic resources and teach information literacy.
• The authors use their analysis of a domain-specific social bookmarking service called CiteULike to reflect on two metrics for evaluating tagging behavior
• 1. tag growth- which assesses the addition of new tags to the overall tag vocabulary
• 2. Tag reuse- which looks at the recycling of existing tags.
• They examine the relationship between these two metrics and articulate design implications for enhancing social bookmarking services.
• How a social bookmarking service can encourage different levels of tag growth and reuse through design.
• They focus on social bookmarking services for scholarly communities in which users collectively organize and tag intellectual resources
  

Social Bookmarking

• Social bookmarking is the practice of Internet users identifying and labeling web pages for use later and has become a popular way for individuals to organize and share online resources.
• To create accounts and tag other sites or web pages.
• Allow librarians to tag and organize electronic resources in “private” mode until they are ready to roll out their tagged pages for users to discover.
• Librarians can make reference notes and give additional tips and guidance for students using particular links for their course-related research.
• It also called social tagging.
• “Social bookmarking tools as they relate to academe can have several purposes including:
• Organizing and categorizing web pages for efficient retrieval
• Keeping tagged pages accessible from any networked computer
• Integration of new social software tools and mashups to access tagged pages with RSS feeds
• Allowing librarians and instructors the capability to follow students’ progress; and giving students another way to collaborate with each other and make collective discoveries.”
  

Professional development and networking

• Social bookmarking can allow academic libraries to network and share appropriate scholarly web sites and work to develop cost-effective electronic resources for reference and curriculum support.
• Digital Library Federation provide gateways to subject guides and other university research resources that could be incorporated into social tagging projects.
• Librarians can tap into social bookmarking sites such as Delicious to find e-resources other libraries have discovered as well as librarians' blogs.
• Blogs provide a forum for academic librarians to discuss their experiences with Library 2.0.

Benefit of Social Bookmarking

• For libraries and educational institutions to allow users to save and rate bookmarks.
• Provides the capability for academic libraries to integrate their services with social networking site
• Allow information professionals to create subject guides and focused lists and projects and send those links to interested users
• Increasing research into these methods of knowledge organization
• To enhance OPACs, bibliographic instruction and reference,
• Resource sharing and personalized library services.
• Academic libraries should promote social bookmarking:
• Help students locate and use organized online resources
• Social tagging provides a means to break down communication barriers between libraries and students.
• Gives academic libraries a more prominent
• Faculty to better align online resources with coursework will also benefit students

Conclusion

• Through social bookmarking, libraries can collect resources for their users while also marketing their presence in an ever-growing online environment.
• Academic librarians may also seize opportunities to better offer web resources by collaborating with faculty and sorting out appropriate web sites or even finding innovative ways to create and tag content.
• Academic libraries can capitalize on these new tools and technological capabilities to reach their users in new and exciting ways.