I've been aware and have used Wikipedia for a long time now, so my impression of wikis has been that they are a sort of a living encyclopedia where people can add or update information. I didn't realize the other sorts of things for which they can be used, particularly as a way to organize an event. The first library wiki that I looked at was used in this way, organizing and providing information about a symposium.
This next wiki is more of the encyclopedic sort but is more about useful ideas from a large number of contributors than it is about facts. There is such a wealth of good ideas here that I bookmarked it for future reference - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki.
I saw many library wikis with information about specific programs as well as an ALA one to develop a legislative agenda - National Library Agenda. Given the number of wikis I saw in my exploration, they appear to be an application that is already being used in several ways quite successfully by libraries.
For the last exercise, I added my blog to Favorite Blogs on CTLS 23 Things Favorites wiki. It was very easy to use.
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