Wednesday, August 24, 2005
It's a WikiWiki World
If anyone is interested in getting involved with Wikis, here's a chance to get in on the ground floor. The LISWiki just launched on June 30, 2005 and there are plenty of topics waiting to be covered or just fleshed out. Unlike Wikipedia, LISWiki's mission embraces opinion pieces ("with factual information properly presented, of course"). So, if you have a soap box that's been gathering dust, they want to hear from you as well.
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There is another cool LIS wiki out there called Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. It focuses on sharing information about programs, services etc that folks out in library-land are implementing. Some interesting stuff on there.
Any potential uses for wikis here at GPC?
I'd like to see Library Success and LISWiki merged, with Library Success as a large subgroup within LISWiki, but that's just the compulsive organizer talking.
As to GPC applications for Wikis, I haven't played with them much, outside of correcting typos and grammatical errors on Wikepedia, (which is very satisfying for the stickler in me). Uses at GPC? Well, I don’t know. The whole point of the Wiki is to use it for something collaborative, so we could use them internally to work on group projects, maybe have one GPC projects wiki with subgroups for all the various committees, etc? If we wanted to mount a public wiki for GPC faculty, staff, and students, then that would raise some immediate questions. What would the theme be? Who would monitor the content being added? I haven’t seen a lot of actual libraries using it, so I don’t have too many places to steal ideas, er *ahem*, find inspiration. Emory has one for their Reserves Direct software. But, that’s about all I’ve seen. Anybody else?
I really haven't looked into library uses very much, or noticed any. But I'm sure they're out there. Would be a cool way to do group projects in a class though instead of doing presentations or something. So maybe more pertinent as a potential classroom technology than library.
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