Tags help make libraries del. icio. us, Library Journal 132 (15), 26-28

Traditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use. Patrons regularly prefer Google's simple interface. Now social bookmarking and tagging tools help librarians bridge the gap between the library's need to offer authoritative, well-organized information and their patrons' web experience.
“Librarians are so careful about what is bought for the print collection, but then we watch our googlers race around the Internet among unedited and ill-founded and repetitive single-page resources.[Using del. icio. us] is our attempt to select suitable material, to post it without delay, and to provide access points and comments on content,” says school librarian Jan Radford, whose Delany Library (Delany College, Granville, Australia) is embracing del. icio. us, LibraryThing, and other social tools.

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