Tuesday, 1st May 2007
In today’s Journal Club meeting the basis for discussion was the article:-
'Wikis in the workplace: how wikis can help manage knowledge in library reference services' by Angela Kille, published in LIBRES Number 16 Issue 1 2006, available at http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres16n1/
A very practical article with lots of good tips and links to websites. However, due to the presence of one person who was rather more technologically literate than the others present, the discussion was wide-ranging and included mention of other techie things such as social bookmarking (http://www.del.ici.ous/), virtual communities such as Second Life (www.secondlife.com) and RSS feeds, complete with live demonstrations as the aforesaid techie person had had the foresight to bring along a laptop!
When setting up wikis it is important to plan properly – decide what your wiki will be used for, what will be included, who will be able to add and change content, etc.
The article mentioned several ways in which libraries could use wikis, eg as a database for FAQs, as a peer resource guide for sharing subject specialist knowledge, library instruction material specifically for a community of users such as the Oregon Library Instruction Wiki (http://instructionwiki.org/), and subject-specific resource guides such as BizWiki at Ohio University Libraries (http://www.libraryohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki)
This discussion article certainly inspired this writer to investigate wikis further with the aim of developing some wiki applications for the library’s website.
'Wikis in the workplace: how wikis can help manage knowledge in library reference services' by Angela Kille, published in LIBRES Number 16 Issue 1 2006, available at http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres16n1/
A very practical article with lots of good tips and links to websites. However, due to the presence of one person who was rather more technologically literate than the others present, the discussion was wide-ranging and included mention of other techie things such as social bookmarking (http://www.del.ici.ous/), virtual communities such as Second Life (www.secondlife.com) and RSS feeds, complete with live demonstrations as the aforesaid techie person had had the foresight to bring along a laptop!
When setting up wikis it is important to plan properly – decide what your wiki will be used for, what will be included, who will be able to add and change content, etc.
The article mentioned several ways in which libraries could use wikis, eg as a database for FAQs, as a peer resource guide for sharing subject specialist knowledge, library instruction material specifically for a community of users such as the Oregon Library Instruction Wiki (http://instructionwiki.org/), and subject-specific resource guides such as BizWiki at Ohio University Libraries (http://www.libraryohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki)
This discussion article certainly inspired this writer to investigate wikis further with the aim of developing some wiki applications for the library’s website.
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