Delicious!

What is Delicious?  It is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.

My link to my Delicious:

http://www.delicious.com/kldaymo

Other than it being a useful tool to keep track of bookmarks from any computer within the library for staff, I am wondering whether this could be useful for patrons that use the public computers at the library as they can keep track of all of their own personal bookmarks, without having to bookmark them on public computers (not sure whether it is even possible for them to do this anyway?) or other patrons being able to see them.

It would be a shame that it may be on it's way out as I have been finding it useful for my own personal use and was wondering which of the other programs to use in its place - Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon or Slashdot, all of which also appear to be internet communities where people can rate or vote on webpages, as far as I understand it! 

As these links are tagged, it allows you to find other links that other people have found that share the same tag that you are interested in.

LibraryThing:    LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for book lovers!  It allows you to create an online cataglog of all the books you own or have read or would even like to read and again, you can assign a tag to allow others with similar interests to find other similar books.  The books can also be rated and reviewed which helps other people in making their selections.

You can do searches for your books, create collections to sort your books and print off your catalog.
You can also keep your collection private.  It is not necessary to share it with others if you don't wish to.
As it allows you to join groups that cover books or topics that you are interested and you can read what others have to say and join in the 'conversations' happening it becomes like an online bookclub!

I imagine a lot of avid readers could really enjoy LibraryThing.

There is also a widget that you can put onto your webpage or blog that displays the titles of your book collection.

I think it would be great to let patrons know about this service so that they can more easily keep track of the books that they have read or wish to read.  It would also be good for libraries that have their own blogs as they can list favourites, new titles, etc.

My LibraryThing link: www.librarything.com/profile/kldaym