Librarian X

Thanks to the Swiss Army Librarian for posting this tool: The Awesome Highlighter.

It allows you to select and literally highlight text on a web page, and creates a custom URL for your highlighted version that you can share. It adds a “jump to highlights” link at the top of the page to make it easy to spot your emphasized section.

For example, I highlighted a few words on the Library Society of the World FAQ. You can see my highlights at http://awurl.com/lxsevi52186.

How great would this be for IM or e-mail reference, to point out a particular area on a typical over-texted library page (cough)? The only hitch I can see is that it wouldn’t work with most of our licensed databases since they don’t generate stable URLs.

Wow — this post by Lorelle Van Fossen, Blog Resources: Researching the Research, Finding the Facts, and Seeking Supporting Evidence, is pretty much an online ready reference shelf in one place.  I’ve never used most of these, and am fairly sure I’ve never even heard of most of them.