Good Night favorites, Diigo is our new library tool!

Diigo has become one of my new favorite technology tools.  I can’t imagine using favorites to save all of my important resources for my school projects/research papers and professional resources.  Now that I have a solid knowledge of Diigo’s features, completing the literacy project using Diigo with my staff seemed like a great idea.  I started by giving a workshop to the staff about Diigo’s features.  Once they became comfortable using Diigo we started bookmarking items into our Advising  Library.  The goal was to create a digital library with information about higher education that we could use to start a department blog/discussion board.  The collaboration and participation of the department was great because everyone wants to stay informed about higher education issues and trends to better serve our students to promote academic success.  Check out our library to see a wide range of topics that have utilized many of the Diigo features.

https://www.diigo.com/user/goodwinadvising

Below is the survey that I used to poll the staff about their Diigo experience.

My Digital Library

I really like using Diigo as a digital library.  It is very convenient having all my documents stored in one location.  Previously I had been using the favorite icon on different computers.  I found myself e-mailing or printing documents as I needed them.  Diigo is very user friendly and easy to set up.   I can’t believe that I have been missing out on this great technology tool!  It offers so many features to keep your documents organized.  Creating sticky notes, highlighting documents, previewing a document with the read later notation, creating notes in the text box, being able to keep documents in the library marked private and being cloud based without having to keep a backup are many of the reasons why I have enjoyed creating and maintaining my personal library.   Most convenient to me is the Tag option.  I like that it allows me to quickly scan the tag list on the left and locate documents with scrolling through my entire library.

I plan on using Diigo for the rest of my courses and expand my digital library.  It will be very helpful next semester when I take Educational Research.  What features do you like about Diigo?   Do you find it as user friendly as I do?


The short video below was very informative when I was setting up my library. It discusses the many features I mentioned in my blog post.   I thought it would be helpful for others getting started.

My Diigo Library

Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo.