We've had a few discussions on Scoop it! here at work and I think I'll go with the general concensus that Scoop it! can be a little vague with their collecting (without talking about the limitations on what can be done with a free subscriptions...!)
However I will say that the best applications I would fine for such a curration tool would be with geographic limitations.
Let me explain.
One of my pet peeves is the great emphasis on USA generated library professional materials and data. Reader's advisory tools, periodicals, statistics for all kinds of topics, such as ebooks and particiaption to programs, come in great number from the USA. However, we are not the USA and socio-economic, politic conditions such as they are in Canada make us a little different from the USA!!! Therefore, this data does not always refer to the conditions within which Canadian libraries exist. Using data from the USA is therefore somewhat detrimental (in my humble, and possibly incorrect opinion!!) to optimizing library performances here in Canada!
By focusing on Canadian content, which is more and more user- (and free) generated through blogs and other creative-common sources, through such curration tools as Scoop it! we can find Canadian answers to our Canadian issues! From Georgetown, Alberta rather than Georgetown, Connecticut!
Here is my little attempt...
http://www.scoop.it/u/eva-i-fischer
What do you think?
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