delicious is yummy

I just spent some time watching the delicious tutorial and reading the articles about delicious. I think bookmarking favorite sites and tagging them has lots of potential, but I am a little intimidated by the more advanced uses of the site (though if I try a few it may make more sense). Also, in watching the tutorial it became very clear to me that I am still living in the technological dark ages (although learning 2.0 has helped in that regard --maybe now I am in the technological enlightenment??).

I can see the Youth Services department of the library using delicious as a way to share good sites for reference work and class visits. There are some topics (for example Explorers) that the kids need to research each year, and we always need a readily available list of good websites on these topics.

I can see using delicious to create and add to webliographies. During the rollyo lesson, I created a search engine of Autism sites. In it, I listed about 10 sites I know that are good to go to for information on that subject. Now, after learning about delicious, I think this is a better place for that list of sites (I don't really want to search them, I just want access to them in one handy place). It would also be useful to see what other sites people have tagged on that topic.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have begun using Library Thing to keep track of all of the books I read. One of the things I am doing in Library Thing is adding tags to the book titles. The tags serve as memory aids (so hopefully when I want to find the book about the homosexual boy who goes to Brown I'll be able to do so.)