I think I like Wikis! I started off thinking a bit on the cynical side but after investigating a lot of the library-oriented wikis, have changed my mind as to how useful they would be to us in our library. I was particularly interested to see the training type wikis that were shared between library staff in America. eg. the PLCMC Core Competencies Wiki. A knowledge base/training wiki would be a good idea for our region, I think. It would cut training costs and as we are a big region, travel costs. As we are also a bit isolated from training venues, it would open up the training opportunities available to us and to more staff as well! I liked the idea of the Community wiki, hosted by the library. That would work well here. The subject guides wikis produced by some libraries are a good idea, too. I also think the libraries who are opening their online catalogues to annotation by both staff and library users, are being very innovative (and a bit brave!) It was reassuring that there are some controls put on some of the wikis by library staff to control the content- making sure some stuff can't be deleted! Good idea! The Library Success wiki had some great stuff- have a look!
http://www.libsuccess.org
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