Thursday, January 28, 2010

Thing 16 - Wikis

I spent some interesting time looking at the suggested wikis.
SJCPL Subject Guides - liked the "Local Authors" - and it would be a wonderful addition to MCPL given the wonderful resource of local authors that we have in this community. Also liked the Business Seciiont - nice roadmap to resources.

Library 2.0 in 15 minutes a Day - dead link as was Librarian Instruction wiki and Book Lovers Wiki.

Library Success: A Best practices wiki. Obviously (from looking at postings) updated on regular basis. Liked the ract that they circulate video games, labeling them E (everyone) and T (Teen) with over 300 titles. We could learn from that.

ALA Wikis - have looked at them before attending conferences. Wealth of info for librarians, but what would you expect?

Research libraries wiki was interesting - good tool for advanced research.
MERLIN - I had looked at that before in an attempts to sign on to 23 Things. Love their training calendar, and blogs and wiki links. Yeah Annette with her photo blog.

Lots of food for thought. The wiki design with open input could be problematic in a public library, but obviously with monitering it does work. Liked the idea of an Amazon model re patrons rating books.

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