Friday, April 4, 2008

23 Things on a Stick - Thing #9 & 10 – Online Collaboration & wikis

The wiki – This is the greatest thing since sliced bread, especially for people who are researching something. When people work collectively there is more that can be accomplished and you are able to utilize the creativity and knowledge of an entire group. How can this help a library? Simple – let’s say that you are a start up library and do not have the books in a database yet, but want to have a list of all the titles, authors, genre etc…. Using the wiki you could have many people working in unison to do this.

Or let’s say that a library would like to build a “whos’s who” document. They could all write biographies on the authors and link the books to them. There is no counting the number of possibilities for wikis.

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