Response: I do find a value in social bookmarking. It could (and will) be useful in all of the scenarios mentioned in the question. I have spent the last few weeks directing and instructing an aviation summer camp. The students were (and are) very enthusitic. There is no way to impart all the knowledge and resources that I have and they want in just one week. We have decided, the students and I, that we would set up some sort of online resource that we could all share our knowledge and aviation experinces. Social bookmarking would be a good tool to allow the students and me a chance to share resources that we have found.
With that said I would like to ponder the negative side of social bookmarks on delicious but not in particular as they pertain to the internet in general. When searching out these new and wonderful devices I am initially excited to be learning something new: to go to somewhere I have never gone before. This enthusiam last usually for about the first hour. Then I begin to feel like a person who has been sent into the library of congress and told to find one specific book. Did I mention this person has been to a library before but has always just went to a specific section and picked out a book off the shelf from their favorite author.This person knows nothing about card libraries or the dewey decimal system and the Librian is not present but you can leave her a note and she'll get back with you soon, maybe. This is my delemia. My challenge is to learn the dewey decimal equivelant to the order of the internet. Maybe there isn't one. Maybe I need to help create one. All of these different systems are there to help us do just that. Let me help you organize your information. Each one claims. I thank you but could you make it a little simpler maybe?
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I felt the same way. It took me a long time to find information related to my field. But know that I found them I go back to them and learn new things all the time.
I too saw social bookmarking as a way extend my classroom. To get students involved is a great idea. I do fact of the days everyday and thought about using social bookmarking and see what students can find and add related to the fact I give them.
I think an on line resource on aviation is a great idea. What type of site are you using?
By the way, don't wait for that librarian to call you back--they are being phased out. My Dean requested I continue my education in Library Science, however I couldn't find any colleges (actual or on line) offering a degree or courses in Library Science. Schools are no longer hiring librians, but "media specialists". So I countered with course in Educational Technology and that's how I ended up here.
Margie
The problem with the internet today and the reason that it isn't as linear as a library is simply the way that its constructed. In many ways the internet is the absence of Government oversight and governing bodies. There are some bodies that create standards and guidelines for certain technical aspects of the internet but nothing to the degree of what you suggested. Internet search engines mostly use "key words" to find what your looking for or to give you what they "think" (using a sophisticated algorithm) is the best fit to your search terms. Its this "freedom", so to speak which has made the internet so powerful. Because it isn't constrained to too many specifics. People and companies have the ability to publish, and build nearly anything they want.. putting so much creativity into attracting users to their site. It is this ability which causes these "new" technologies like delicious and others to seemingly go from one persons mind into a worldwide sensation.
Here is a helpful page, at the bottom is a tutorial that should help out some too. http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/search/searchint.html
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