The library I work at has recently added a link to de.icio.us from its home page, but I hadn't realised, until playing around with the Sutherland Shire Library site as part of the Library 2.0 training, that you could change the way the tags are listed.
My preferred way of viewing the tags is by list and showing bundles. This makes finding related tags easier than without bundling them. Also, viewing by list rather than by cloud means that you can quickly scan down to see the sub-topics and how many links there are to them.
Linking del.icio.us to a library's website has the potential to be a way of linking library users with sites considered helpful by library staff on a range of topics without library users needing to come into the library for reference assistance with online resources. Moreover, it can give library patrons confidence that the sites linked through del.icio.us are worth looking at, because they have been chosen by the library as links worth establishing.
On the question of using del.icio.us as a research tool, I think it has great potential for academics to set up links useful for their students. It can also be used for colleagues working in the same field who wish to share useful sources with each other.
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