I first heard about wikis about a year ago through an article in a library journal and I immediately thought of a use for one - for the ISL group to collaborate on a standard for the reference interview. It was really easy to establish the page at www.pbwiki.com, however I found it pretty painful to create the body of the webpage because I wanted to cut and paste chunks of info from MSWord and every time I did that I lost all the formatting and had to fiddle for ages to fix text size, font, and other stuff. So we didn't end up using it much, but seeing we all have access to the same network drives it was easier to do it on there.
However I am a big fan of Wikipedia and loved the examples of libraries creating subject guides which community members can update, and also the community networking hubs. Wiki's can be a fabulous tool when the purpose is right.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
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