Wikis

I think that wikis are a great idea for collaboration when it comes to learning and sharing new ideas. I have used wikipedia before to gain information. However I do this knowing that not all the information that I get is guaranteed to be 100% accurate. This is the downfall of wikis. You have to trust that the person who is contributing the information knows what they are talking about. Some do not check their facts.

I was really impressed with the Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. What a great place for librarians to share ideas, knowledge, etc. This is one that I will be using in the future. I have been thinking of a way to incorporate a wiki at work. One way we could do this is for our reference librarians to contribute to a reference wiki. Any questions that students continually ask along with where to find the answers can be shared among the librarians. Since each librarian may get different questions, the wiki would allow individual librarians to post their own experiences at while working at the reference desk. This would in turn help the next librarian.

In the near future I would like to create a wiki with my fellow workers. I would also like to try and get the students involved some way. How I am going to do that, I haven't worked that out yet. I am still thinking on a couple of ideas. However I don't intend to create a wiki just to be creating a wiki.