Wikis can be really useful for a number of applications. I belong to one that co-ordinates meal providers for a local homeless shelter. It does indeed make planning simpler; moreover, this wiki notifies me by email every time there has been a new posting or other alteration on the site.
The Library Conference Wiki would certainly be of use to participants before and during the conference, especially those new to conferencing or those unfamiliar with the DC area. Once the conference was over, the wiki would be considerably less useful in some respects, but could also be a networking source for participants, or a way to recoup or get further information about the conference.
The Best Practices Wiki was fun to look at, and a potential source of great information and additional opinion. I found myself surfing from one topic to another, and had to pull myself back to this assignment. I will definitely put that site on my favorites list!
I find the Materials Management wiki a useful and up-to-date way to access the Collection Development Manual. It is a real improvement over the old paper one that took such time and effort to update.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
More on Exploration #5
I have been using GoodReads for some time, and went back to Library Thing to see how they compared. Library Thing is a little slower to post, but it is much easier to add tags to the books--you can do it right when you enter the book, and I have not found it to be that easy in GoodReads. My colleagues showed me GoodReads, and at the time, the view of the book covers was much better there than in Library Thing. When I went back into Library Thing today, I found it easy to get a screen that showed the cover art for the books I had posted. I like to use these online book discussion/lists mostly as a memory prod for books that I might like to recommend to patrons, and a tickler to check and see if a favorite author has written something new. I have set up GoodReads to let me see what friends are reading, which can be a lot of fun, as well as a source for good new titles!
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