Wikis

One of the goals of Wiki is to allow individuals and groups of people to collaborate and add to a collection/ community of growing data/ knowledge. So it would be ideal to use in libraries for tasks such as manual procedures on the intranet where staff can access, build on and edit the information to make it perfect. It is good for networking, allowing users to learn and share bits of knowledge, as we can see in “The full library success: a best practice wiki”.
The SJCPL Subject guides wiki have contain lots of useful information.
The Book Lover wiki page created for Princeton public library is a result of such hard labour and meticulous work. http://www.princetonlibrary.org/new-recommended/index.html . Each book has a detailed description of what is in it. Patrons can then access this information and by searching for it online, find exactly what they need and then place reservations on them.
For instance, new fiction titles include details such as – links to a cover page image, a summary of the book, chapter excerpts, reviews, and recommendations for similar titles and books within that genre. Non-fiction books show the page of contents.
I hope that someday our library can create a wiki page like that one. I’ve learnt how to add new information to the nsw learning 2.0 wiki pages, but I think I need more time to explore wiki to get a better insight of it. I have a great appreciation for staff that created the nsw learning 2.0 program; it seems very worthwhile to complete this program as a librarian. I feel that Australian Pubic libraries are quite behind with the new technology in comparison to most American public libraries. So it is time to jump on the bandwagon and keep up with the new technology.