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Dear all,

Thanks again for your contributions to last week's CIG Social Media 
e-forum. Please find the following links/resources: a) those mentioned 
during the e-forum, and b) a list of some essentials compiled by our 
guest moderator Nicola Osborne (special thanks to her again).

A)
Bookmarking:
http://packrati.us/ 
<https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fpackrati.us%2F> 

http://ifttt.com/ 
<https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fifttt.com%2F> 
(more sophisticated)

Social media guidelines/policies:
http://edina.ac.uk/about/social_media/social_media_guidelines.html
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/
http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/use-and-relevance-web-20-researchers 

http://www.rin.ac.uk/tags/tags/web-20

Cataloguers Twitter lists:
https://twitter.com/#!/HVCats/lists <https://twitter.com/#%21/HVCats/lists>
https://twitter.com/#!/yo_bj/magical-metadata-fairies-8 
<https://twitter.com/#%21/yo_bj/magical-metadata-fairies-8>
https://twitter.com/#!/suchprettyeyes/cigseforum-socialmedia/members 
<https://twitter.com/#%21/suchprettyeyes/cigseforum-socialmedia/members>

For training/events information, there are various CILIP and ALA accounts:
@CILIPinfo, @CILIPRareBooks, @ALA_TechSource, @ALCTS_ARC

Enhancing catalogues through social media/crowdsourcing (e.g. comments, 
ratings, reviews):
Huddersfield Uni http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=cls
Victoria & Albert Museum's http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/
Westminster public libraries 
http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/libraries/247/reviews/

Capturing and saving tweets for later:
Storify http://storify.com/
CoverItLive http://www.coveritlive.com/

Aggregator blogs:
http://catalogerrollcall.tumblr.com/ 
<https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalogerrollcall.tumblr.com%2F> 

http://planetcataloging.org/ 
<https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fplanetcataloging.org%2F> 


Social tagging in academic libraries:
Presentation by Charlotte Smith from the CIG 2008 conference: 
http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/cataloguing-indexing/Pages/presentations.aspx#2008 
<https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cilip.org.uk%2Fget-involved%2Fspecial-interest-groups%2Fcataloguing-indexing%2FPages%2Fpresentations.aspx%232008>
Video from the Cambridge Librarian TeachMeet about Jo Harcus work at 
Anglia Ruskin Uni: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9LjRe3inLM 
<https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dd9LjRe3inLM> 


BIALL for law librarians has a "how do I wiki?":
http://biallpr.pbworks.com/w/page/5259189/How%20do%20I 
<https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fbiallpr.pbworks.com%2Fw%2Fpage%2F5259189%2FHow%2520do%2520I> 



B)
http://academia.edu/
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
http://www.authorstream.com/
http://bit.ly
http://www.coveritlive.com/
http://creativecommons.org/
http://www.flickr.com/commons/
http://docs.google.com/
https://plus.google.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
http://mashable.com/
http://prezi.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/
http://edina.ac.uk/about/social_media/social_media_guidelines.html
http://stori.fy
http://www.tweetdeck.com/
http://www.twitter.com
http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=cls
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/
http://visibletweets.com/
http://wordle.net


Best wishes for success and/or fun with these from all of us!

-- 
Mrs Esther Arens
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