Wikis+in+Libraries

Examples of wikis used in libraries Put links and descriptions for library wikis on this page. If the wiki is being used as a private (such as staff only) space, you can put a link to a description, article, or presentation about it, but note that the link doesn't go to the actual wiki. (You can also bookmark these links in [|del.icio.us] with the course tag and the tag "wiki", and whatever else you want. Remember that continued bookmarking and tagging in del.icio.us gets you participation credit!)

This library wiki at the University of South Carolina, Aiken is used to organize the library website: http://library.usca.edu/index.php/Main/HomePage What I found interesting about it is that is doesn't really "look" like any of the other wikis I've seen. It looks like a library website, but is probably much easier to edit for the library staff.
 * Library Wikis**

The Memphis Public Library ([|http://tempo.memphislibrary.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page)] has an inter-staff wiki that includes a page for the Emerging Technologies Committee to collaborate, a "sandbox" area that lets each staff member have a place to "play" on the wiki without the fear of deleting or changing other's work, and a Staff Lanugage Skills page, with detailed information on the second languages spoken by the staff so that other staff members can refer library patrons who need help in that language.

Margie Llinas **

A Patron Managed Library Wiki ** The Bull Run Library is one regional library of the larger Prince William County of Virginia library system. The Bull Run Library uses PBwiki (I believe the PB is peanut butter) software to create the regional library's web page. The wiki is managed by a library patron! The page includes announcements, blog links, links, WorldCat search and other search engines. " http://bullrunlibrary.pbwiki.com/ About PBwiki >>>> PBWiki makes an easy to use web-page that multiple people can edit. It's as easy to make as a peanut butter sandwich." PBwiki software is available from the Get Satisfaction web site. Retrieved from GetSatisfaction web page [Blum.**Interesting Library Wikis**. = = [[http://www.ipl.org/div/teenpoet/|*4.http://www.ipl.org/div/teenpoet/] This wiki invites teens to express yourself freely in words and find new ways to do it.[|†][|IPL TeenSpace Poetry Wiki] Colorado State and Biz Wiki have no entries yet, but the poetry wiki is a really interesting idea. Valerie Fisher
 * 1.http://lib.colostate.edu/publicwiki/index.php?title=Main_PageThe **CSU Libraries Public Wiki** hosts working space for staff at the CSU Libraries to use when collaborating with persons outside the CSU Libraries. It is intended to be useful for organizing, collaborating, and presenting information important to the group. //*// 2..http://wiki.lib.purdue.edu/display/Career/Purdue+University+Career+Wiki;jsessionid=D2E1A7F4F88E2D51768047AC981ED767Purdue University Career Wiki is an online comprehensive career resource. This site has been developed through the collaborative efforts of the offices linked on the left sidebar and the Management and Economics Library. This collaboration has resulted in a site that supports the job and internship seeker through various phases of the search process: identifying career paths; developing written materials (resume and cover letter); researching fields, industries and employers; and preparing for interviews. //*// 3.http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Main_PageThe Biz Wiki is a collection of business information resources available through [|Ohio University Libraries]. It is designed to assist business researchers in finding the best resources for their projects or topics. The Biz Wiki contains articles about business reference books, databases, websites, and other research guides. This wiki also incorporates Meebo!

College Library Wiki Daytona Beach College Library Wiki (http://dbclibrary.wetpaint.com/ ) powered by “wetpaint [|http://www.wetpaint.com/.]” The librarian creates wiki pages with subject reference links for the students. I do not see a great deal of student participation on the wiki, although there is a widget called “Community Activity” which identifies when someone other than the Librarian has contributed to the wiki. Kathi Blum **Brown University Wiki Index ** **Brown University offers a home wiki page called Dashboard ( https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/dashboard.action ) with links to other Brown wikis (library, digital library etc…) powered by Enterprise Wiki. Kathi Blum**

 __**Interlibrary wiki**__ <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">The State University of New York Library Association maintains a wiki to share new technology uses amongst the various SUNY libraries <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">[|http://sunylanewtechwiki.pbwiki.com/<span]

http://instructionwiki.org/Main_Page
 * Oregon Library Instruction wiki -"a collaboratively developed resource for librarians involved with or interested in instruction"**

This is so exciting for me (the amateur genealogist who has 1800 names in her family tree). The V.P.L. has created a wiki a Chinese-Canadian wiki for patrons and public to share and locate resources for family searces @ http://www.vpl.ca/ccg/index.htmlI actually thought about doing something along those lines for my project for the Godfrey Memorial Library in Middletown, CT. Wiki and blogs are perfect for the genealogist. Kathi Blum
 * Family Tree - Genealogy - Vancouver PL - Wiki**

http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/butler_wikiref is a wiki for Butler University patrons, and staff to comment on the reference resources either electronic or monographic, or serials. I really like that students are encouraged to list what classes each reference resource could apply to. Helpful to those just entering the classes.
 * A Great Reference Service Wiki**

http://wiki.piercecountylibrary.org/ This public library system in Tacoma, Washington, has a wiki where patrons can add favorite books and movies, as well as why they love their library. The wiki doesn't seem to be very popular (at least from a participation standpoint), but it does provide some interesting ideas on how wikis can be incorporated into the public library system. <span style="COLOR: rgb(130,0,255)">**Wiki** <span style="COLOR: rgb(130,0,255)">**As I learn more about wikis and review various library wiki sites, I realize that there are many potential uses for wikis. One of the most important aspects of wikis is that it provides a format for people to contribute ideas and comments regardless of who they are or their level of education. I particularly like the idea of creating a library catalog wiki where patrons can comment on books, DVD’s etc… I find book reviews very benefical when choosing reading material and the wiki catalog is one great idea.** <span style="COLOR: rgb(130,0,255)">**Subject guides, internal library wikis and library sponsored community wikis are other neat concepts. One useful community wiki page might be tagged “Wild Animals Roaming the Area.” Users could add Wild Animal sightings (including pictures) and the librarians could contribute relevant information about the various dangerous creatures. Laugh if you will, but in my farmland community, we share this kind of information by screaming to each other over the fence!** Last week if was a bobcat in my yard **The point is I would have eagerly added that information to our local library wiki.** <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"> Kathi Blum
 * Pierce County Library System**

Produced by the ALA, Libland is a place for potential MLS candidates, students currently working on their Masters, and new librarians to share and contribute information and links. Link for “new librarians and tools” contains a lot of information and links on web2.0 technology. http://libland.wikispaces.com/ University of Connecticut’s staff wiki: it contains links to reference information, and how to’s. It was recently changed so that general community cannot makes changes, staff id and password are now needed. [|http://wiki.lib .uconn.edu/inde x.php/Main_Page] Marisa Gorman
 * ALA's LibLand:**
 * University of Connecticut's staff wiki:**

As Library patrons are now keeping pace with the new technology trends, libraries, also should go parallel to this interactive technology. Oregon State University already started to utilize support tools for a reference service: It is “a “Reference-Librarian maintained knowledge base”, and Wiki is used for this purpose. OSU Libraries uses a “home-grown, open source program called Reference Desk M (RDM)” ( [|http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/RDM/<span] style="font-family: Calibri">), this RDM furnishes ” knowledge-base functions for libraries’ reference services.” Having this facility, the reference librarian can log into the RDM, and edit pages on RDM Wiki. The other utility for Wiki in a library/digital library is as a web site content editing tool. This can enhance the use of wiki in different content management roles. The site of OSU is well organized. It provides the latest news, editing pages, Child page, Circ useful links, access to WorldCat http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/1640210104.html Ahmed Ramadan
 * The Digital Library Wiki **

The Blogging Libraries Wiki: <span style="COLOR: rgb(130,0,255)"> http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki This wiki is basically a list of hundreds of libraries that have blogs. There are seven separate categories, including academic, public, and school libraries, as well as blogs written by library directors. It's a great resource to keep abreast with what other libraries in your field are doing. It was started several years ago with a handful of names, and has grown exponentially since. There is also a link to a list of librarians' blogs, some with descriptions about the content of the blog. Gina Loprinzo

Here are a couple of wikis I found that seemed particularly useful to me. [|http://seriesbinder.lishost.org/index.php/Main_Page<span] style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Wiki developed by Webster NY public library as a collaborative update on popular children series, listing order of series and pub. dates. This is always an issue in Children's Services, finding the right order in a series and staying up to date. I love the idea of having a wiki developed for that purpose so that if you find something missing, you can fix it and keep it more useful. http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Wiki set up for librarians to share “best practices” in all sorts of library endeavors such as, programming, technology in libraries, PR in libraries, etc. This is a great resource for librarians to find information from the tacit librarian knowledge base on any number of areas that a librarian might need to investigate. Terri Mitus

**LibraryWikis** http://librarywikis.pbwiki.com/ is  a wiki that states its purpose as being “ a wiki about wikis used in libraries. It is a place for learning about and sharing examples of library wikis. The wiki is a companion to a research article published within the September 2007 issue of //Information Technology and Libraries//. The author of the wiki is Matthew Bejune, Assistant Professor of Library Science, Purdue University Libraries, and Doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” The article seeks to “document the phenomenon of wikis in libraries” and covers four areas where wikis are used within libraries: 1) Collaboration between Libraries, 2) Collaboration between Library Staff, 3) Collaboration between Library Staff and Patrons and 4) Collaboration between Patrons. Pages containing links for all four areas are available from this wiki homepage: 1) http://librarywikis.pbwiki.com/Collaboration+between+Libraries, 2) http://librarywikis.pbwiki.com/Collaboration+between+Library+Staff, 3) http://librarywikis.pbwiki.com/Collaboration+between+Library+Staff+and+Patrons and 4) [|htthttp://librarywikis.pbwiki.com/Collaboration+between+Patrons]

By Concetta Chiarolanza
The Jewish School Libraries wiki, http://jewishschoollibraries.pbwiki.com/, has best practices and other useful information for a Jewish day school librarian. While many pages have not been updated in a year, others have been added to very recently. There are podcasts and links to online resources. by Rose Myers (6/25/08)

http://formanlibrary.wikispaces.com/message/list/summerreading?orderBy=last_date&orderDir=desc/ Great use a Wiki to inform patrons about summer reading recommendations.
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The Princeton Public Library created a Book Lovers Wiki that I think is beautifully organized. It can be found at: http://booklovers.pbwiki.com/ .While it doesn’t look like it’s currently updated, but the idea is great - book reviews and summer reading- and the wiki isn’t messing and confusing as some can be. I also really like the Library and Information Science Wiki ( http://liswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page ). In fact, this is on my list of wikis to go back and add content to. While the wiki is not fully developed, the content that exists all seems reputable and well written. Some of the topics would have been helpful to me in my first days of library employment, as well. by Laurie MacPherson