Weeks 7 & 8 & 9

#16.Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them

Wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add , remove or edit content.You can do this without knowledge of HTML or other markup languages.
Anyone can create new wiki pages simply by creating a new link with the name of the page.
Wikis have been around since the mid of 1990s but only recently has the general public become aware of their existence.
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools.
Pages are connected not hierachiacally but by hyperlinks between pages.
A wicky doesn't just build networks between editors and authors ,it also builds networks between types of information and knowledge.

What can library do with wikis?

Wikis can be used in public libraries because they open up new possibilities for collaborations between library's staff and patrons.
They can be used as subject guides or books' reviews .
Being an excellent space for collaborative groupwork ,wikis are a better way to organize the group's effort and keep the track of where everyone is in the process.

Conclusion:

Wiki is just another tool that has been developed to give almost anyone the ability to develop a web page.Is a quick to build easy to edit website on which all information can be edited, changed rewritten or delete by users or members of the site.Because of this reason it can be difficult for people to get used to the idea of a website that anyone is alloed to add to or edit.

Library wikis:

http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page
http://instructionwiki.org/Library_2.0_in_15_minutes_a_day
http://booklovers.pbwiki.com/Princeton%20Public%20Library
http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/ala2006/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.phptitle=Wikis#Examples_and_Information