Collaborative Librarianship Volume 3 Issue 3 Article 9 2011 Social Bookmarking Sites: A Review Laura L. Barnes Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship Part of the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Barnes, Laura L. (2011) "Social Bookmarking Sites: A Review," Collaborative Librarianship: Vol. 3 : Iss. 3 , Article 9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29087/2011.3.3.09 Available at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol3/iss3/9 This Review is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ DU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Collaborative Librarianship by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ DU. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]) Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Keywords: social bookmarking; collaborative Features of Social Bookmarking Sites reference; collaborative collection development The table below compares the features of several Introduction popular social bookmarking sites. All of the sites listed offer link annotation/notes, RSS feeds Social bookmarking tools allow users to store, based on tags and user names, the ability to manage, search, organize, and share their make individual links private, and bookmark- bookmarks online and access them from any- lets that allow users to add links to their libraries where. Although these tools have been around easily. Another resource that provides links to since the mid-90s, librarians have not generally social bookmarking tools is Wikipedia's List of embraced them as tools for building information Social Bookmarking Websites resources.