Ah, the wiki, useful and informative yet the bane of teachers everywhere beacuse of unreliable material. Oh, how I love wikipedia and urbandictionary. I'm excited to learn more...
(oh yeah, and we have a staff wiki here at Olney.)
The more I explore wikis, the more I really like them. They are just so useful - especially when there are a lot of participants. Sadly the ones I'm really interested in seem to not be very used or updated:
Maryland's Young Adult Librarians
Somerset County Teens
Book Lovers Wiki
It seems to me that there is too much going on in the online community and too many kinds of resources for libraries to keep all of their online presences up to date. So there are some great ideas languishing in obscurity, or disinterest.
Most of these wikis seemed to be account based - in order to add information or comments, you needed to be a registered user.
What seemed to be the most successful wikis were nationwide or without specific titles holding back collaboration. YALSA's wiki is cool. And one of the wikis from the discovery excersize is so cool that I need to see about adding it to my RSS feed reader, and that was the Library Success wiki. I also liked that they had the same wikipedia look that the world has gotten used to.
I have to say that I really like the staff wiki that our Assistant Branch Manager (Andrea Castrogiovanni) set up for Olney through PBWorks. It's a free service and is a great place to emphasize what is going on in MCPL and Olney Library. I also like that we can manipulate it, too. I've created a set of links on the sidebar so that no matter where you are in the library, you can access the same links everywhere using the same web application that we already use.
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