Week 12 post

Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons
-creates better information sharing
-facilitates collaboration in the creation of resources
-efficiently divides work loads
-two uses-sharing knowledge and ability to cooperate in creating resources
-Commercial sites abound to help you build your own Wiki includes seedwiki, pbwiki, jotspot, twiki, phpwiki.
-the creator of the wiki decides who has editing rights to the wiki.
-wikis are used to manage public services information, collaborate on and keep track of reference questions and assess databases.


Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution

Social tagging is a relatively new phenomenon that allows an individual to create bookmarks for web sites and save them online
Tags include subject keywords chosen by the user, brief descriptions of sites
Folksonomy is a taxonomy created by ordinary folks
U of Penn adopted PennTags where UP students, faculty and staff can book mark useful websites
Open source content management software is Drupal
Academic social tagging site is connotea

Jimmy Wales- Wikipedia
Neutrality on issues. If problems occur and opinions are given, they will be asked to leave.
The wikipedia core community meets off line too.
Whenever changes are made, a "wikipedia community person" is sent a copy to double check information and delete what they need to.
Votes for deletion page, to see if something needs deleted.
Next step is to create textbooks on wikipedia. It should take at least 20 years.