A few years ago I had an opportunity to sit along a reference librarian at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission for about an hour. Reference librarians there find themselves answering the same questions numerous times over. For example: How do I get a Texas driver's license? They store email responses they can call up and use as templates to answer a question. Along with the process they have dozens and dozens of bookmarks stored because they tend to get a lot of similar types of questions, such as can you provide statistics on: education, population, economy, etc.
Del.icio.us would work brilliantly in this such a situation where one is doing heavy research. The social networking aspect, hmmmm, not so sure about that one in a professional setting. As librarians we need to make sure the information we provide is accurate and from reliable sources. If the sharing were done via a network of fellow researchers/librarians it would be beneficial.
I did open a Del.icio.us account and found adding bookmarks to be easy. It was nice to have a list of them right at my fingertips, so to speak, with the sidebar. The tags really didn't do much for me.
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