What are the advantages of storing, sharing, and tagging web content this way?
1) Well, there are a lot of resources out there and it isn't very practical, efficient, or professional to go and google what you need every time. This is a wonderful way to narrow down the ridiculously large "on-line world" into a more manageable, library-specific size.
2) A lot of really smart people work at the library and these aren't the type of resources that come up in training so this way we less tech-savvy workers can get in on what the real smart full-timers are using.
3) The only advantages to tagging it this way, I think, are so that we can find it. I don't see how else this could work.
What are the disadvantages?
1) Maintenance of this, at least in a library setting, must be a nightmare. URLs change and then we've a got a dead link. The internet's claim to fame of being an ever-changing, fluid resource does not react well to being pinned down.
2) Titles of some of the bookmarked sites are so similar to each other that they blur into a blue meaningless mess, unless you really squint, which may cause head pain.
3) Some of the most useful (or newer) sites may not have made it on to Delicious, so you may be doing yourself a disservice, missing out on the latest greatest stuff. And there's no "thrill of the chase".
Otherwise it's quite nice. There are no disadvantages to sharing or tagging. Sharing and tagging are like bees pollinating flowers.
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