What is a FURL and how can it be useful in a library setting?
FURL (which stands for File URL) is a new tool for saving, sharing and finding web sites and pages. It stores the links on the FURL site so you can access your personal collection from any browser, anywhere, anytime. You can even have people subscribe to get emails on links you collect in all or specific topic areas you use to organize your links. Links can also be posted to specific web sites by categories, creating a kind of ongoing web log of saved (FURLed) links. The way it works is simple. When you find a link you want to save, you click on a downloaded FURL button on your tool bar and a form will pop us allowing you to custom categorize, annotate, rate, assign searchable key words, and if you want, send the link to people you think are interested. The implications for the librarian are many. Patrons and other staff would be able to subscribe to and/or search specific categories of expert searches by librarians in those topic areas. When librarians leave a branch or the system, th
