Delicious Exploration

This post is about the social bookmarking site Delicious. This is a site where a user can create and share a list of their favourite websites with others and find out about similar websites by viewing other user's bookmarks. This is a simple way for a user to expand their knowledge of useful websites. It relies heavily on people tagging (in an informal way) websites, posts and pictures to enable others to find them.

I was able to easily add the blogs of three classmates but had a frustrating time attempting to tag them as only one of the tags used was saved (after repeated attempts) and I cannot work out why. Suggestions anyone?

Although library staff are more experienced with content that is organised in a structured manner this tool could be used as a way of keeping track of what others working in similar libraries are doing, topics of client interest or sites relating to professional development. The E-Services Librarian at the Parliamentary Library specifically mentioned using  Delicious when we visited as an easy way of providing her clients with an updated list of websites on current topics of interest to them.