Now this is something that will be really useful for me in my day to day life, let alone from a working point of view! As the Common Craft video mentions Bookmarking certain URLs can be quite messy and cluttered. This is how my "Favourites" look like at home. Anything to con troll and make accessing my bookmarking easier to use and sort through is definitely a bonus!
At having had a look at the Sutherland Shire Libraries account it is quite interesting to see how they have used theirs. It is interesting to see how they have 676 items arranged in much more contained and well organised topics. Now I should actually use the jargon - Tags. There is general knowledge items, curriculum support for students through years 7-12, Australian History, Economics, etc.
This would definitely have been an assistance to my own studies back in the day. Social Bookmarking is more than useful as a tool for research assistance as I believe it extends the library's help into the clients home PC or even laptop. The library will be able to set up specific tags to assist the user with many different topics.
In a sense the library will be able to guide the user through their Internet research more so than just having all the bookmarks in one easily accessible place. I can see the vast potential this could offer users of the SL as it can provide research assistance at anytime of the day and it is able to be accessed anywhere in the world. If the tags aren't managed properly then it can become just a place to keep bookmarks all in the one area - however with the proper procedures and policies in place the Library would be able to help clients in a much more complete way.
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