Library Thing & Delicious

I suddenly realised it is nearly next week and I still haven't written anything about Library Thing or Delicious.
Library Thing is a facility that I think that every library should make use of. It seems to be a site that any library user that likes to share the experience of the books they like to read and talk to other people that like reading would love to use and have acces to. It could also be of use in encouraging younger patrons to read or to read more broadl,y by putting them into touch with other kids with similar interests. LibraryThing could also be of use to aquisitions librarians to get an impression of the types of books people are reading and enjoying. People with large personal collections could find the site useful to keep a record of what books they have and what they have read. To be of true use to the library patrons they would have to be educated in both its existence and its use.

Delicious on the othe hand, I see to be of less use. It seems to me to be just another search engine with an online bookmark facility. If you are the sort of person that likes to share their list of liked websites then I suppose it may be of use. I don't think that there would be any significant benefit to have a link on library websites. If you have too many links available then patrons will simply get confused and not use any of them.