Wikis
The lesson on wikis has given me alot of ideas for things we could do at the State library of New South Wales. Looking at next generation catalogues was a way to see how others were using this technology. One that stood out for me was the Hennepin County Library 'Bookspace'. The wiki on book clubs is something we could do right now including links to book clubs linked to public libraries for example. This would be a place where members could share ideas for books, running meetings, questions and to see what others are doing.
Hennepin put their e-resources and websites into context nicely and then linked browsers to the place to sign in--very well done, I thought.
Another application for libraries would be procedure manuals. Easy and quick to update and very accessible.
I have used a wiki to plan collaboratively for shared projects. This would be a useful way to work on projects across the Library. We could use wikis to carry out a dialogue with our clients about our services and developing services or to provide information to clients as in some of the university sites.
I am going off to verify some facts about my LGA before adding to the Wikipedia entry which is rather sparse!
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2 comments:
I wonder if cross library projects will use wikis as a planning and communication tool in future. We definitely plan to use one to engage everyone in the service model discussions.
Mylee (PLS)
Yes, I think that is a great idea. I am not certain yet whether it would be better to use a blog or a wiki--it would also be useful to have one related to our work on NSLA project 7.
I would really like to set up a blog for ANPLAN in NSW with the public library folks who are interested in what we are doing--and there are heaps of them. I would value advice from them on priorities and ideas to fund the digitisation which will flow from our work with NLA on the newspaper digitisation project. This is for after I finish the course, though...
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