Let's catagorize

In our element
At last we can begin to make sense of the web. We are able to organize our information into subjects and our books into an organised structure. Of course we have more control over the way we do classify the sites we set up. No adhering to particular classification standards, although I'm sure we would follow what has been tried and tested to a point. Folksonomy - unstructured categorization scheme. Never heard that word before, yet it really does apply to the web tools that we have been looking at this week.
Discoveries
Del.icio.us seems to be a great bookmarking site. Its almost a web, inside a web, where you can tailor make it to suit your own needs. Tagging your sites with the appropriate tags to make your searching, or that of others as easy and effective as possible is the most important task in setting up a del.icio.us site.
Library Thing could have many uses and at a glance seems to be the starting point to creating a fantastic book club or reading group. Could be a lot of fun!
Uses in Libraries
These collaborative online reference tools are still in the early stages of seeing what the possibilities can be, if you consider how many people have really given them a lot of thought and time.
Both the Southerland Shire Library site and that of the Cleveland Public Library show how you can categorise within the site, making the search to other web pages much easier. I think this is just the beginning for this type of reference tool.