Working my way through the 23 things, here come the wikis. Having already been a fan of Wikipedia for some time, this was a fairly easy task.
I looked at a few different wikis:
St. Joseph County Public Library system - I really liked their set-up. Lots of information, well organised and the main pages in each subject area were great. You had the list of articles, links to further resources, searching etc.... The pages are only able to be edited by staff, understandable, especially about things like class times etc. Could be more user involvement however: book reviews etc.
Book Lovers Wiki - summer reading program at Princeton Library. A small wiki, but one which serves its purpose, for a group of people involved in a summer reading program. These people were the only ones allowed to edit, but fair enough, it was for a specific event. Great test drive for bigger projects!
Library Success: a best practices wiki - Lots of interesting stuff for library people. Have addressed the vandalism problem by only allowing editing by users who create a login (must have e-mail address).
What could we do with wikis?
Why not a staff wiki: events coming up, things happening today, popular resources, how-to-fix that problem, circ. desk information sharing.
Even the staff intranet could go wiki: how many times have you noticed a staff phone number is no longer correct or contact details need updating?
Something to think about.
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