Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about using this tool in libraries. Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere?
My understanding of Delicious is that it is a means of storing, categorizing and sharing selected websites. It can be used for personal or professional reasons. It is created from the ground up, meaning anyone can do it, rather than requiring special tools/formulaes - folksonomy. The sharing is multi-level - I can share my bookmarks with someone else, and they can share theirs with mine, extra people added also share the bookmarks of everyone I have added to my network, with the option to not share particular sites so privacy is protected.
There is much potential for research assistance in this. The main thing to think through would be whether this was the best tool to use, whether a wikki might be better for example. Also - how it would be delivered/accessed, and what, if any, sort of controls might be needed, or not.
Some uses might be: where students are doing particularly big/difficult/complex projects then staff can share with each other and with students the best/most up-to-date sites they find at the time it is most needed. It would be like having a group of librarians helping each student simultaneously - and if academics were able to input as well through the networking capabilities then students would have a very strong support to go to.
Subject guides - ? - thinking here of grouping search guides and help pages for searching strategies for different systems, as a means of accessing other libraries help pages - so if people are having difficulty they could go quickly to other sets of instructions?
ILDesk - I'm sure there is something there but its late and I can't think.
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