Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Wikis

The Book Lovers Wiki was the most visually appealing of the samples listed. Someone went to a lot of effort to make the site unique. The New Orleans wiki was certainly a wonderful idea for a large event. No one person, or even a committee, could possibly have put all that information together.

I realized early in the description that there are times at that our department could use a wiki for internal information, instead of trying to keep track of all the details of a big project through e-mails. I can also understand that there may be applications for using a wiki that the library patrons could edit. Is such an idea viable at NSU? Does the concept have to go through a zillion administration levels for approval? Would the powers that be insist that one person must take ultimate responsibility for reviewing content? Hmmmm.

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