Monday, October 13, 2008

Wiki's

Wiki's are an interesting concept. I liked the booklover's wiki that people could use to "browse" titles. I also liked the way St Joseph County Library had their website set-up as a wiki. It seemed more intuitive than having to figure out which tab to click and move page by page. The one page set-up with descriptions was terrific. I can see a wiki used at locations as a "ready reference" source of websites and quick information. All the various information we are sent via email that relates to questions customers may have. I generally have to recall the email and hope someone remembered to put the info in the electronic rolodex, but if we had a wiki to add this info to instead of sending an email out it would be one stop shopping with easy access. Of course, we would need to remember to check it periodically. Another use we could use as a system is with CMLsi; instead of submitting our stories and photos via email for some one else to post, we could do this ourselves and save a lot of time.

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