This week's lesson is about wikis. Wikis are a great tool for collaborative sharing - an opportunity for many hands to contribute to building a useful knowledge structure. The wikis that HCPL has set up have been useful, though I think we need to show more confidence in their value and raise expectations for staff to make more visits and contributions. Wikis are clearly more useful with specific audiences willing to contribute, so I'd expect to see them more often on intra-nets rather than out there for the general public; the inter-net examples cited in the training are interesting, but several of them are apparently closed and not very fresh.
Unshelved, the popular library-oriented online comic strip, has just started a wiki for the (mostly) librarian community called Unshelved Answers . This past week I spent some time on this site, submitted a question seeking information about a scifi novel from the 1980's that I'm trying to identify, and got a prompt response pointing to a book that HCPL has and I'm eager to reread. Yeah wikis!
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