Like anything, Delicious can be really useful for researching. A research assistant might have to wade through a lot of crap before finding useful information, but this offers an alternative to standardized cataloging of websites (and possibly beyond). While I'm not in favor of doing away with standard cataloging language, an addition to the research process can be helpful. The old story that no two people will catalog a book the same way holds true for tagging. But what we're offered by tagging in delicious is the ability to make tags for things that don't have subject headings.
Push this into the library catalog and you can create records that utilize both tagging and subject headings for optimal searching of the catalog.
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What if we defined specific subject headings for use by reference staff? I think this could offer a great alternative to our web link portals.
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