Thing #16

The links at http://marylandlibrarieslearning2.blogspot.com are extremely helpful for understanding wikis, and as I read on Web 2, it is clear that wikis are a tool that Web 2 libraries are using in their social networks.

Wikis can be used to annotate the catalog, create social groups that the library wants to serve.

http://meredith.wolfwater.com/cil06/#10
This link from Mdlibraries is well done and has links that could be followed for days, but almost all of them stripped away some level of mystery for me about wikis. Slide 5 showed a format similar to the HoCo page, but with a number of wikis to draw the customer into the library's services. Meredith Farkas' presentation is filled with a variety of practical library uses for Web 2 and wikis.

http://enquiring-minds.net/2007/11/19/balance-in-everything-wikipedia-v-the-librarian/
This article about Librarians and Wikis points out the need to get into Web 2 and its tools.