Social Bookmarking for Librarians

Many librarians remember the old days of Vertical Files — We carefully clipped newspapers and periodicals, gathered company reports and free public service handouts, pictures, and many other things we thought might be helpful to our patrons, then we stashed them into a large filing cabinet for access. But today the focus is on less paper, not more. So, we can gather all of these things into Virtual Vertical Files.

Your virtual vertical file can be created on a Web site, in a blog, or even more easily by using social bookmarking. What's social bookmarking all about? Let's find out.

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Video #1 - Social Bookmarking in Plain English

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Video #2 - Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for You

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Video #3 - Highlight and Share the Web

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Video #4 - How to Bookmark With Diigo

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Video # 5Step-by-step screencast on how to install Diigo on the Explorer browser:

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Video #6 - Step-by-step screencast on how to to use Diigo to bookmark when you don't want to install a toolbar (Using Diigolet):

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This material was gathered by Linda Aksomitis

Instructor for Introduction to Internet Writing Markets

and Credenda Virtual High School & College