Monday, June 16, 2008

Wiki

The SJCPL subject guides page was interesting but it needs more subheadings. I stumbled upon a language learning site called Mango languages under the subject of education. Under the initial page, the subject education could have had additional categories for education as well as a separate link to language learning.

The library success wiki has a lot of interesting stuff that I'd like to eventually read.

I can see where having a wiki for an ALA conference would be useful since often the times and places of meetings change and new information can be updated at any time.

I absolutely love the Bull Run Library wiki. One thing that I think is great is you can search a book in Worldcat. It'll tell you what library has it as well as give you the option to buy the book through Amazon. The library will get a certain percent of Amazon's profit. It would be good for our library system to do this. Also I love the links on the side. One that I see as useful as a librarian is the dewey decimal chart. Often I have patrons who don't understand the numbering system for non-fiction books. This would be helpful in showing them how the system works. Having a library website as a wiki is a good idea because you can get everyone to contribute and update the site rather than relying on the webmaster to do all the work.

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