Del.icio.us

This is an interesting idea; I’ve often been frustrated with browser bookmarking. I finally gave up using it, especially in trying to do research projects, because I was never at the same computer for the duration of a project. This would be a wonderful feature for those bigger projects where it’s a huge help to keep internet sources readily available (and not have to email them to yourself).

It’s nice that you can see other people’s comments. It gives a multitude of perspectives on an article; that’s rather useful when it’s necessary to argue a point based on the information.

As far as library use goes, it would be a trial-and-error resource. It seems like it might be a good idea to keep commonly-used pages bookmarked in a single location where staff can access them from all computers, maybe from each library in the system. It might not be beneficial, though, as the need for such a resource hasn’t arisen (just in my circ-asst opinion). The bookmarks on each computer here in Cashiers have been more than sufficient to serve patron requests, so it’d be something to just try and see how well it works.