Cool little web app that tells you when the next Cap Metro bus is scheduled to come. Real time info on actual arrival would be cooler but this ain't bad.
I realy like some of what Plymouth State is doing to allow browsing by LC subject. If you click, for examle, Sociology, you are taken to a sort of socioloy portal that contains links to course guidelines, relevant databases, pre-populated searches of the OPAC, reference materials, websites, and the sociology librarian's contact info. Click on a pre-populated OPAC search and you are able to broaden/narrow the search by clicking tags as well as bookmark or choose from RSS options.
Code for blogs and websites
If you want to use this button on your blog or website, install our 'All-in-one Bookmarking Button' plugin for WordPress, or simply insert the following code if you don't use WordPress:
All-in-one button for social bookmarking. You add it to your site, and users can bookmarks you on a variety of social bookmarking tools... We might wanna consider trying this?
LibGuides - Knowledge Sharing for Libraries
LibMarks - Social Bookmarking and Tagging for Libraries
Came across these SpringShare tools today - LibGuide (for subject guides) and LibMarks (social bookmarking for libraries)...
Darthmouth uses LibGuides for their subject guides. http://libguides.dartmouth.edu/ . Looks really cool!
The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to show how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.