Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Week 8: Answer boards and social searching

I like the idea of social searching. I really enjoy del.icio.us social bookmarking and Flickr photo sharing applications. I love the Taste website, which allows readers to rank recipes.

In libraries, answer boards can be used for reference librarians to answer questions for school projects and also answer specific questions from all library users. It will save a user's time because some difficult questions take some time for a librarian to search the information on the answers while doing face to face reference interview.

There is no boundary for knoweldge market. Reference librarians are "slamming the boards" to provide answers on popular "Answer Board" sites, and members of community can really have "online brain trusts".

1 comment:

pls@slnsw said...

Sounds like you have been having a interesting time exploring the different web 2.0 tools.

Ellen (PLS)