Del.icio.us is one of those sites I've used a lot but never set up an account for, having always been happy enough with browser based bookmarking systems and also probably in the past a bit nervous about putting all that valuable stuff up on a website that could just disappear one day without warning. But hey, PCs die too, I guess increasingly we're being asked to trust the network with our data - I just like to make sure anything I use like this has a good export function. Anyway, the import of bookmarks from Firefox was a doddle, I've fiddled around a bit but I'm still happy enough to keep using browser bookmarks, especially since I use the Google browser sync application to keep work and home bookmarks on the same page...
As for tagging, it has its place, which is basically when users can tag their own items (eg del.icio.us, Library Thing, Flickr), but I don't know of any particularly successful applications of the concept to get people to tag other stuff - not even Amazon, with its giant user base. So using Library Thing tags in the catalogue as YPRL has done is a nice touch (though Lynette - why are the tags under Item Information and the LCSH headings under Catalogue Record - is it not possible to combine all this info on one page?), but I am extremely sceptical about the value of just allowing users to tag library catalogue records, not because they'll write rude words but simply because they won't do it enough to really add much value, as like most Web 2.0 technologies, the value of tagging increases the more people do it.
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Unfortunately Librarything appears in the catalogue under the full catalogue entry. This is how it is imported into the catalogue.
Our catalogue is also hosted offsite so we find it hard to manipulate anything new into the existing files...but we're working on improvements.
Lynette
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