Create a blog post about your findings. What did you find interesting? What types of applications within libraries might work well with a wiki?
Interesting?
I found one of the university wikkis to be interesting in terms of the way if joins related information in a different way - a wikki will be aimed at a particular user or interest and has a specific focus, but within which a lot of ground is covered because it allows multiple viewpoints and interpretations, and is not static. The main difference between a wikki and a uni website is that input is up to the person adding, and not filtered in any way.
I enjoyed the worldcat wikki - as a reader being able to read reviews from negative to positive rather than just being given one view, and limited to published, very liberating - the same would apply to a library wikki giving access to readers to comment on works in their collections and the library itself.
A problem I found a few times was that links didn't go anywhere - one to Teaching Writing with Technology led to a message saying the URL couldn't be found - so cluttering could be a problem, tidying up links would need to be built in.
The wikki that was for people who use wikkis was good - being able to select different wikkis from a list and compare them was both informative and a useful tool.
Library applications?
- feedback into the collection via comments from users, reviews, suggestions
- subject areas - leading to items in the collection, all formats, websites, databases - the application to subject guides would be exciting
- links to areas outside the library which would be of interest/concern to users? - putting the library in a larger context, not just the university? - and allowing academic and student input - not sure how this would work but it would be a very alive, democratic place which would appeal to students - obviously this would need further development to avoid problems with vandalism, inaccuracy.
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