del.icio.us is a social bookmarking network that allows you to organize, tag, and publish bookmarks for multiple sites on the internet. With installation of the del.icio.us browser applet, a simple click saves any web site to your bookmark list.

While playing around on the intarweb tonight, I decided to browse all the public tags on del.icio.us that are related to teen library services. I plugged in tag combinations such as teens and libraries or YA. After several attempts to pull up a heavily used tag, I found that we lack a consistent label to describe young adult library related sites.

After which I thought to myself, “Why not use the Alt. Teen Services blog to suggest a tag uniformity?” So this brings me to the point where I propose that we tag our teen librarian related bookmarks as teenlib. Then we can build a happy collection of young adult library related bookmarks. del.icio.us generates rss feeds for public tags, so it will be easy to subscribe to our teenlib collection with an RSS reader.

I should probably take some time to explain the value of social bookmarking, but instead I’ll refer to a simple article that explains the service:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA609690.html

UPDATE: Maybe we should come up with a schema for tagging our teenlib items. I’m thinking every web site related to teen librarianship should be tagged as “teenlib” so that we have one unifying tag for all items. But we could also have tags that break down the resources into smaller groups. For example, we might want tags for web sites relating to teen programming or teen literature (teenprograms / teenlit) ??

What types of web sites should be grouped with a specialized tag? What tag should be used? Please add your ideas in the comments.