Reading Lists & Subject Guides

Tools which offer the addition of multimedia and multi-format elements such as photos, videos, social bookmarks, RSS feeds, and widgets to traditional resource guides, as well as an interactive element which makes them particularly 2.0.

Squidoo

• Community of user-created “lenses” or webpages dedicated to one topic
• Recommendation Tool
• A place for experts to share their subject knowledge
• Over 50,000 subject guides

Features

• Can link to websites, online articles, blogs, RSS feeds, Amazon books, Google maps
• Can pull in images from Flickr, bookmarks from del.icio.us, videos from You Tube
• Can insert user polls
• Can Explore by topic, tag, or lensmaster
• Top 100 and Top Lists

Great Tools for:

• Subject guides
• Pathfinders
• How-to guides

How Are Libraries Using Them?

• To create annotated multimedia subject guides such as the ALA's Library 2.0 Reading List
• To create course reading lists
• To learn about new technologies
• To create guides for librarians and patrons
• To create library subject guides
• To create library research guides

Other Reading List Tools

• LibGuides
• Google Knol

• Koonji

• Technorati's Favorite Blog Lists

Hands-on

Exercise:

• Go to Squidoo 

• Explore Top 100 Lenses by Topic: Education
• Explore a Chemistry Subject Guide