36 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
department uses del.icio.us to market library cultural programming.”
“Some of us are using del.icio.us tags to try and connect users with information they may not find otherwise.
For example, there is a widget that will post your del.icio.us tags on your Facebook page.”
“To integrate our resources with the social bookmarking system del.icio.us, we have recreated our Virtual
Reference site there. Del.icio.us users can easily add us to their network to keep up with new resources
being added to the site. An RSS feed is provided for for users who wish to subscribe. The Virtual Reference
Collection page on our site is being enhanced as well: We are using a tool called ‘FeedDigest’ to send the
links from our del.icio.us account via RSS into our Web page. This makes it easier for the librarians authoring
the page to keep it up to date. They simply enter new links into the del.icio.us account, and FeedDigest
provides the glue that makes them also appear on our Web page.”
“People in the Emerging Technology Interest Group tag things on del.icio.us as a way of pointing out
interesting things to other people in the group and the library system. Some librarians have their own del.icio.
us accounts.”
“Kelvin Smith Library has leisure materials provided by Cleveland Public Library that are not listed in our
formal catalog. We use LibraryThing to provide an online catalog for these materials.”
“Tagging available through Primo.”
“Social Bookmarking Integration within catalogue and Web site. We created short cuts within our library
Web site pages and full records within the catalogue to allow users to bookmark that resource inside of their
favorite social bookmarking tool.”
“MTagger: This is a homegrown tagging tool.”
Please indicate the main goals for using this particular tool. Check all that apply. N=34
N
Connecting library staff with library users 8 26 24 12 18 17 19 2 28
Connecting library staff within your library/institution 8 17 18 8 7 11 14 2 20
Connecting library users with library users — 10 9 6 3 5 5 2 13
Connecting staff at different library institutions 1 7 7 2 5 2 4 1 9
Connecting other groups 1 3 3 1 1 2 1 3 5
To
develop
tools
To
enable
discovery
To
share
information
To
create
content
To
market
library
services
To
establish
rapport
To
facilitate
communication
Other
type
of
experience
department uses del.icio.us to market library cultural programming.”
“Some of us are using del.icio.us tags to try and connect users with information they may not find otherwise.
For example, there is a widget that will post your del.icio.us tags on your Facebook page.”
“To integrate our resources with the social bookmarking system del.icio.us, we have recreated our Virtual
Reference site there. Del.icio.us users can easily add us to their network to keep up with new resources
being added to the site. An RSS feed is provided for for users who wish to subscribe. The Virtual Reference
Collection page on our site is being enhanced as well: We are using a tool called ‘FeedDigest’ to send the
links from our del.icio.us account via RSS into our Web page. This makes it easier for the librarians authoring
the page to keep it up to date. They simply enter new links into the del.icio.us account, and FeedDigest
provides the glue that makes them also appear on our Web page.”
“People in the Emerging Technology Interest Group tag things on del.icio.us as a way of pointing out
interesting things to other people in the group and the library system. Some librarians have their own del.icio.
us accounts.”
“Kelvin Smith Library has leisure materials provided by Cleveland Public Library that are not listed in our
formal catalog. We use LibraryThing to provide an online catalog for these materials.”
“Tagging available through Primo.”
“Social Bookmarking Integration within catalogue and Web site. We created short cuts within our library
Web site pages and full records within the catalogue to allow users to bookmark that resource inside of their
favorite social bookmarking tool.”
“MTagger: This is a homegrown tagging tool.”
Please indicate the main goals for using this particular tool. Check all that apply. N=34
N
Connecting library staff with library users 8 26 24 12 18 17 19 2 28
Connecting library staff within your library/institution 8 17 18 8 7 11 14 2 20
Connecting library users with library users — 10 9 6 3 5 5 2 13
Connecting staff at different library institutions 1 7 7 2 5 2 4 1 9
Connecting other groups 1 3 3 1 1 2 1 3 5
To
develop
tools
To
enable
discovery
To
share
information
To
create
content
To
market
library
services
To
establish
rapport
To
facilitate
communication
Other
type
of
experience
