Social Bookmarking

As an introvert with hermit-like tendencies, I've been put off by the very name "social" bookmarking. However, I've become keen on delicious (would somebody tell them it's all one word) and Library Thing. I think they appeal to the snoop in me - peeking in on what other people are reading or surfing. It's like browsing the host's bookshelf when you go to a party - not the height of good manners, but irresistible nonetheless.

I've put the Government Weblinks that are on our website on delicious as well at http://delicious.com/Gov_sites_list_OPL . A couple of other interesting collections of government bookmarks on delicious are http://freegovinfo.info/delicious and http://delicious.com/MSUGovDoc. Both of these contain mostly U.S. sites, but can be a good place to look for government sites relating to current events.

I really like the San Mateo Public Library delicious site. It would be great if we could do something like that at OPL (no pressure, Matt). It's interesting and kind of ironic, though, that their list is so useful because they've essentially. . . catalogued it. Tags are great, but once you have a big enough number of items, you have to impose some kind of control on the tags in order to find things, which brings us right back to controlled vocabularies and other traditional library stuff. The San Mateo site is, as you say, a good blending of the new & traditional.