Technorati is useful as I often come across a web page or article that I would like to keep but I prefer not to keep printing them out.
Del-icio-us I am not so sure about, it isn't quite the same as the convenience of having your favourites in a browser and I can't see any benefit other than sharing your links with others. The tagging becomes important for this, so just creates more work, for little gain.....
Away from the 'icebergs'. I related best to the first article in the list of five that discuss Library 2.0 (apart from the boating analogy). It seems the most relevant to our library environment. The 'just in case collection' is definitely less of a priority, although we still have a responsibility to collect materials relating to taxation, especially internal publications. There are also many people who are still attached to print as a format and aren't ready to reserach or read online (I for one will find it hard to part with a 'physical' collection). User education is indeed an issue, due to limited resources and the wide range of services that users have access to. eLibrary tutorials and user friendly interfaces are esential to overcome this problem.
I loved the idea of Library 4.0 the neo-library: experience, in the last article (To a temporary place in time), Library as knowledge spa, art salon etc
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