Saturday, April 5, 2008

Wikis for everyone and everything

Wikis is an interesting concept. Of course I got carried away with week 5 and realised how popular wikis are and how they can work great in your work place, be it libraries or anywhere, your businesses, family, etc. It will be something like your mobile, everyone will be having a wiki! I came across this article on the web called 7 things you should know about Wikis. Worth reading.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf

For the Discovery exercise I chose:

Subject Guide wiki of St Joseph College County Library - questioned my self about the authenticity of Legal & Government information.

the full library success. A best practice wiki - liked the idea of sharing information on programs, collection, professional development, readers advisory, marketing etc.

Book lovers Wiki - useful for our book clubs, reviews under genres.

A team has been set up in our library to draw up policies and procedures on Digital Imaging. I do think it would be a great idea if we could create an intranet based wiki for this purpose, so that staff could freely contribute, edit or comment on content. This way, we can have staff input and comments across the board and the final report can then be compiled by the Digital Imaging Team.

1 comment:

Dorothy said...

I was also impressed by the best practice wiki. I have found it very useful for tips on setting up a library website.