When I tried to start this unit last week, the amount of information from the first resource reading (Lamb, Brian. "
Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not."
Educause Review. Sept/Oct 2004.) was so much that I decided to print everything out and read them on paper a little at a time. Later, when I was ready to read them, I somehow started with "
A Wiki as a Research Guide"
by Chad Boeninger, which is much easier to understand and made reading the other three articles easier to follow. I found the best explanation and instructions to set up or use any wiki in the
Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki site. I used to think of Wiki as an open chat room type bulletin board but now think that they could be very handy tools. Use in libraries could be for : subject guides, annotating catalog, community wiki, FOL wiki. More specifically, we can have a branch wiki, circulation problems wiki ( media problem, even supplies sharing), troubleshooting equipment wiki etc... of course all should be password protected. Of the exemples shown, the SJCPL Subject Guides,the OCLC Open WorldCat at http://www.oclc.org/productworks/wcwiki.htm are all very interesting
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