Monday, October 29, 2007
#16 What is a wiki
I can see lots of potential for wikis within the library sphere. I have problems with the wikapedia type wikis as the fact that anyone can add content and it may or may not be accurate is a worry. Where I do see potential is in setting up a library success wiki for Australian content. I can see potential for all sorts of topics to be covered in a wiki of this nature. Thinking as a Youth Services Librarian we all have a huge store of knowledge which could be shared on a wiki from ideas for programs to valuable websites. We so often reinvent the wheel and this would be a good way to share this wealth. All those Viclink training days could have the content from the days added to the wiki so we could all access and use it. Wikis also have great potential for pathfinders for our patrons and also for book reviews, though with spydus we are already able to add reviews to the catalogue.
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Hi Rita,
Your post has prompted me to re-visit the CoB OPAC, and wow, I'm impressed!
I'm curious, though - what has the uptake been like from borrowers in adding reviews to the catalogue? I think that whilst the great thing about Library 2.0 is incorporating user participation into information resources, but sometimes they need a bit of persuasion to get involved!
Hi Andrew,
You're right the uptake can be a bit slow. We've added some of our own reviews in the hope that it will inspire borrowers to do the same thing and we have had quite a few filtering through so hopefully it will continue to grow.
Rita
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