Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Wikis

I have just checked out the 3 wikis as instructed. Firstly I looked at the full Library Success: A best practices wiki. There is a lot of potential for this wiki as an accessible knowledge store house for librarians. As a children's librarian I chose to look specifically at this area & there were only 2 contributions. This leads me to believe that time is the one thing everyone is short of on an international basis. I then checked out the Book Lovers Wiki. I liked the way it was split into genres and linked back to both Princeton Public Library & their catalogue. I then went to SJCPL subject guides wiki and looked at the genealogy link. I was so impressed with this one I sent the link to my colleague who looks after genealogy at our Library.

I do like the idea of wikis - they seem a much better way to store information than sending the same over & over in emails - I tend to delete a lot of email & this is a way to ensure the information will be available on an ongoing basis.