Del.icio.us

This looks like a great tool & has proved to be of use in other libraries – wonder if we could use this to tag our reference queries - websites we find useful for news items and sites for students eg NZ history, American civil rights, etc. We could add some subject tags & define the pages – I guess in a similar way we use the fitch for items on & off the catalogue. Bundling tags by general subject or school year might also be workable. Wondered a bit about the privacy thing – but if it’s really just websites that are on display, I guess it doesn’t matter. It also might seem more efficient for staff if our regular & useful sites were recorded this way – easier perhaps if moving from one pc to another (& in case of pc breakdown) eg geneology, local history. I see we have a link on our webpage for the public to access del.icio.us ; wonder how many have registered. I thought the tags could be improved on some of the sites – found a good cooking/recipe site under Del.icio.usIdeas; looks useful & well used. But the thing is to pick & choose from these web tools, so we use the ones most suited & best defined for working in libraries ; wonder what else there is out there ...