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Thursday, May 3, 2007

Wiki weadings

I suspect I have been looking at a lot of Wiki's and not even knowing it. I guess I really like the huge variety of things that you can do with a Wiki. The Wiki's for the ALA conferences would be really handy if you were going to something like that, just a great place to share information and ask questions easily.

As for using it for libraries, I like the idea of being able to add reviews to items in the library catalogue. I think the students could get a lot of of that, I always enjoy reading the comments on Amazon before we purchase. It helps decide if it is worth the effort and cost or not. So I am sure the same could be done with the catalogue. It will be interesting to see if other libraries take it up or not. I would not like to be the first one to do it! It would be very hard to let go of control of the catalogue as well, it is so regimented.

1 comment:

Lisa Billingham said...

Hi all

There is an Innovative product that we could get that would allow reviews to be added to the current webOPAC by library patrons. It is chargeable, so would not be as appealing as a free wiki product of course.