Okay, I admit, before this Library 2.0 journey I didn’t really know what a wiki was except that it was part of Wikipedia’s name. But now…the possibilities with wikis just boggle the mind.
A wiki is knowledge pool where anyone or a group of people can constantly add information and edit the contents. This is 2.0 in action! The knowledge pool is fluid and never in a state of permanence, since there’s always room for new discoveries and understanding.
I saw wikis for general knowledge, for specific events, and even a library catalog! Even when wikis were used for all these different purposes, I was surprised at how similar they all looked: plain and yet chock full of links to additional information.
How can the Library use wikis? Good question. Now let me think about this…
The possibilities are endless, but here are a few that come to mind. Why not have place for customers to review books online and share it with each other? When the Library has big system-wide programs, how about having a wiki of the events and links to the presenters’ websites (if they have one) or additional information related to the events? Would a policy & procedure wiki affect the speed that staff will get the latest revisions of a procedure or updates to a policy?
The Library wikis would, of course, probably need to have some restrictions on who can edit them. Sounds fun, right?
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