I love the idea of accessing my bookmarks from anywhere. Of course, I dread the task of converting my bookmarks to tags; it will be a lot of work. I haven’t had the time to explore all the options, but based on those “optional readings” that I did read, I would like to know more about Connotea and CiteULike because I think they might solve some problems for some of my clientele. And it doesn’t hurt if the librarian comes up with the solution for thier information management problems. I talked to our hospital informationist about the value of adding wiki software to our intranet for interdisciplinary groups to work together and publish their work for the rest of the hospital (but not necessarily for the rest of the planet). We could start with the Health Literacy Work Group (where I have already established a private, user-only wetpaint wiki) and the Ethics Committee, but there are some patient and child advocacy councils, QI and EBM and CPG teams, and others that could work in the wiki environment. Now I need time (there is never enough) to think through the possiblities of the tagging and all the places I could use it. This is a challenge for essentially one and two-person libraries, which can be easily overwhelmed by events at any time. I long for the days when I had such a thing as “office hours” and limited hours on the reference desk. All these new tools and all the infomation they manage seem overwhelming, but also exciting!
