Social bookmarking is an excellent way to organize information on the web. When the internet started in the 90s there were so few websites that anyone using the web could puruse all of them. Now, in 2007 there are 106,875,138 websites (according to Netcraft). It is impossible for anyone to look at all the websites available. Social bookmarking sites, like Del.icio.us offer a way to organize and find relevant information rather than just searching in search engines. This is groundbreaking because people, normal people, are in control of information and are making decisions on what is good information and what is bad information.
I could see this site being especially useful for library research if there is a lot of information on the web about a particular topic (i.e. shopping). This would narrow down the popular sites that a librarian may not be familiar with. If it is something less popular(i.e. biography of Rita Hayworth) it may be more beneficial to do a search engine search.
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