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We will be experimenting with this wiki for week 4. Anything to do with wikis in libraries is fair game. You may start a new page for a new concept, discuss the topics on the discussion pages, edit other people's work, and view those edits in the histories.

Denise: Hi class. A few months ago I set up a wiki for the reference department. It's pretty much self-explanatory; mainly it's a tool for the staff to use to keep track of patron's questions. Here's the link if you want to take a look at it. http://duref.wikispaces.com/. It only took about a week for everyone to catch on and to accept it, now using it is second nature. We used to keep a binder on the desk to track this information. General thoughts are that this is better. Yesterday I went through it

We have come to the end of the course. I hope you will explore wikis in libraries in this segment of the course. I think that Wikis are one of the most practical Web 2.0 tool and is very easy to learn how to use. I prefer them for working on group projects. You are also able to see what others have done. Some of you are already familiar with wikis. If you are not take this opportunity to explore the tool.

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one great use for a Wiki is to use it for the library's policy and procedures manual. You can convert a fifty something document P&P Manual to a Wiki. In our library (New Canaan High School), we have six people on staff in our library, but we are always encouraging our expanded Information and Communications Technology family to contribute to it, which is complicated when managing individual documents on a server (permissions, access, indexing, and searching). If we cross the whole thing over to a Wiki, it will be easier for all our folks - 2 librarians, 3 secretaries, 1 instructional assistant, 2 technology integrators, 2 computer technicians and a network manager to post "how to" entries AND we won't have to worry about modifying the index and table of contents because the whole thing will be searchable by keyword!