More than any other web 2.0 feature, I see this as the most useful for our library users. We librarians just have to face it - our subject headings are not intuitive at all! With tagging added to our catalog records, we could enable our customers to find what they are looking for so much easier. I'll be honest, sometimes I'll search for a book title on a topic that a customer is looking for (where I know we have books in the collection on the topic, but I'm not sure what the subject heading might be); then I'll see what in the world the subject heading was for that topic. Many times, the subject heading just isn't specific enough to be of any help, or is just "odd" enough that you wouldn't think in a million years that it could possibly be the subject term. I'm even not ashamed to admit that that on occasion, I've used amazon and LibraryThing to find additional titles on a topic - then returned to our catalog to see if we own the titles found. In a nutshell, tags make finding relevant titles that much quicker and simpler - and our library members deserve to be able to find the materials they need with as few barriers as possible.
Oh yes, on a personal level, I use delicious as a web-based set of bookmarks that can go with me anywhere.
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