Del.icio.us (Week 6 #13)

I can see that del.icio.us could be very useful for anyone who really wants to be able to "catalog" the web resources they have found and to which they might want to refer again. I see it as similar to LibraryThing but for web resources instead of books. I did create a del.icio.us account and added a few things to it. It is interesting to explore outward through the tags used. Looking at other resources that have the same tags can reveal other really interesting stuff. It can also lead you to things that make you scratch your head. Clearly, one person's choice of terminology doesn't always mean the same thing to someone else!

Library Elf

Another cool tool for library users. HCPL's custom programming that sends out pre-notices for materials about to be due and for holds waiting to be picked up partially diminishes the usefulness for HCPL customers but it's still cool. Since you can have multiple library cards registered, it looks like you can get notification on all the materials and requests from any of the libraries you use, as long as that library is registered with Library Elf, of course.

LibraryThing

Oh wow! Now this is a very cool tool and that's not just the cataloger in me talking! You don't even have to own any books to get benefit from The LibraryThing! You could include books you've read but don't own. The tagging would be really helpful when you don't remember the title of a book but you remember the content.

It was a bit of a challenge getting the widget created. A combination of the comments by iStar and clarification from fourdogmom got me through it.