Social bookmarking is one Web 2.0 tool that has been implemented by libraries. It seems like kind of a difficult one to do really well, because there is so much stuff out there on the web. No one has time or energy to do more than a cursory and random smattering of websites unless a decision is made to keep a very focused scope. However, I think that attempts to guide people to useful and interesting resources on the web is a natural offshoot of the mission of libraries and should be encouraged to the greatest degree possible. If done correctly, Delicious can help librarians to help their patrons find useful and reliable information on the internet.
An interesting library on Delicious is the San Mateo Library. This library has organized their links into bundles by Dewey Decimal. This is useful in some ways, because it gives a hierarchy to the organization of the links and it is a hierarchy that librarians already find effective. However, it could make things more confusing for a casual user who is not as literate in DDC as a librarian, making the numbers seem random. The tags also have the topic in them, but the numbers make it seems kind of cluttered. But if people know how to use it, it is a good system for keeping links organized and helping guide people to what they need. Tag bundles are definitely a good idea for library pages.
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