I was familiar with Delicious because one of my instructors at PSU had required us to use it in her classes. But I had never set up an account of my own--we always used an account the teacher set up because she wanted everyone in the class to have access to the same account so we could all see what the other students bookmarked and the comments they made.
So my first step was to set up my own account in Delicious. This proved to be very easy since I already had an account with Yahoo. After watching all the videos in the lesson, I added a few bookmarks to my account--common sites a librarian would be interested in: the ALA website, the AASL website, and the KASL website. Later I added a bookmark for THE Journal, a technology journal I subscribe to.
Next, I created a tag bundle labeled "Library Organizations". In this folder, I included all the sites with the tags AASL, ALA, and KASL.
I was trying to think of ways in which I could use Delicious in my libraries. A couple ideas I came up with were: 1)it would be a good place to bookmark the various websites I use about authors and illustrators, and 2)I could use it to bookmark the websites I have found that have information about the various immigrant groups who came to Kansas. If my students had access to my account and the Internet, this would be an easy way for them to find these sites without having to type in cumbersome web addresses.
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