Library Resources

[Stephanie Cheney]

In a meeting w/the library people to talk collaborative training sessions we started to share tools. I showed them http://www.zotero.org/ info from the site: "a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources." Library people shared http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com/ info from the site: "Similar to what a DVR does for tv, iBreadCrumbs.com records all the web pages you visit while you research. Save, review, and share your research with friends or colleagues." Anyone have experience with these tools they'd care to share??

[Dr. Jacqui Cyrus]

Hi:
I am planning to introduce a course to our School of Education for 'information literacy.' I have looked at using the Zotero 'suite' of applications primarily because, unlike the GMAIL suites, there is no requirement for subscribing to a proprietary email account. One question to you: can anyone leave a comment on the BLOG or does the commentator have to have a Zotero account as well?

Thanks for the information on iBreadCrumbs. I will view and review it soon.

-j-

[Wayne]

Jacqui -

I have looked at using the Zotero 'suite' of applications primarily because, unlike the GMAIL suites, there is no requirement for subscribing to a proprietary email account. One question to you: can anyone leave a comment on the BLOG or does the commentator have to have a Zotero account as well?

Zotero is not really the same type of tool as Gmail. It does not have a blog feature. It is currently a tool to save and organize personal research citations. You might be thinking of Zoho (http://www.zoho.com/) which is similar to Google Docs. It does require a username and password.

[Dr. Jacqui Cyrus]

Ah Wayne:
You are correct. I got my Z's mixed up. Thanks for straightening out my post.

-j-

[Wayne]

Love Zotero. I have been using it for about a year, most of my research citations are located there. I like using portable Firefox with Zotero on a flash drive. I can't wait for the collaborative tools. Here is a nice article with Trevor Owens (http://moourl.com/w2q1j)

I use diigo to share research and links with colleagues and friends. http://www.diigo.com/user/weanders

[Cheri MacLeod]

Real library people will likely already know about Library Thing www.librarything.com/ . I found it very useful to catalogue my department's books and then use the list to put thumbnails on our website to remind everyone what we have and encourage them to borrow them. We can easily update the free online database at anytime as we get new items.

Zotero is good for online sources. Citation Machine is useful for other types of references http://citationmachine.net/ as you can copy+paste info and the 'machine' will format it for you. There are numerous other tools of this type.

Cheers :)