My favorite thing about tagging is its availability to both the tagger of the information as well as to other users who may have an interest in that same topic.
As an academic library we create web resource lists for popular needs or recurrent classes. I can see this easily translating from our web site to a tagging program. The added benefit of moving our resources to a tagging site like Del.icio.us is that professors and students could add to our selected sites those sites they find useful as well. Since the resources are for the users it makes since to offer each of them the opportunity to strengthen our offerings with those sites they feel are tried and true.
The drawbacks, of course, include random or unhelpful sites working their way into the list as well as "tags" that do not coordinate or make no sense to other users.
Another issue in transferring information to a tagging site is that we would be creating yet another place to look for information. One of my personal professional concerns with the constant and always expanding profusion of information is the increase in the sheer number of places a person need search in order to get a wide and deep look at the information available.
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