Pre-work for This Class:

There are a few things you will need to do to prepare for delicious @ the Reference Desk:

1. View "Social Bookmarking in Plain English."
2. Create a delicious account. (If you do not already have one, that is).
3. As part of your account setup, install the delicious buttons and toolbar in your browser. You may need to get permission from your supervisor, or system's administrator to do this. If you don't have Internet Explorer, you need to install the correct buttons for the browser that you are using.
4. Read this selection from delicious.com's FAQ page about tags. (You may need to scroll to find the section).
5. Add a comment to this blog when you have completed these tasks. PLEASE provide your "In Real Life" name AND your delicious account name in your comment.

Your pre-work is complete once you have performed these tasks.

On the day of the class, please try to show up 10 - 15 minutes early if possible. We will begin promptly at 10AM, and there is a lot to cram into our one hour together. Connection information is available in your Participant's Guide. If you have any difficulty connecting, please contact the producer to let us know your status, and so we can try to get up up and running in time for the class.

del.icio.us Is delicious

In case you haven't looked at the site since Library 2.0, delicious is now new-and-improved. First of all, site's URL has been changed from "del.icio.us" to just "delicious.com." I kind of liked the old URL, once I got used to typing it.

Still, change is good. The new delicious has changed for the better. Some of the old clunkier features have been re-worked, and newer features have been added to help the user.

There is a short movie by "Commoncraft" about delicious that I would like everyone to view as part of your pre-work assignment. It is based upon the old del.icio.us, but I would like everyone to view this in order to gain some basic knowledge about social networking and tagging.

WELCOME!

Welcome to delicious @ the Reference Desk! During these next 2 weeks, we will explore the delicious web resource together, and learn ways to use it as a reference desk tool that we can share with other librarians.

We will use this blog as a resource to support our journey. To your right, you will find links that you will need to participate in the class.

I will use this blog entry area to tell you which resources you will need to use. You may respond to these blog entries with any comments or issues that you would like to bring up outside the instruction sessions. You may also contact me via my email address, which is located at the bottom of this blog page.