Wikis For Libraries

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Library Wikis- How do you create one and use it for your library

Does your library have a wiki?
If you have spent any length of time looking at libraries online, you have no doubt at least heard about the usage of wikis in libraries. Having a wiki for your library is a great way to use web 2.0 with your library as well as organize your resources and improve communication either between library employees or with your patrons.
This lens is designed to help you get started with a library wiki and maintain it as a valuable resource for your library.

AnnaLaura Brown
Librarian and Home Business Coach

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Let these books help you set up a library wiki.

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

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Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

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Wikis and Libraries 

Visit some library wikis and get some ideas for your library wiki.
Wikis - LISWiki
1 Definition; 2 Wiki Benefits; 3 Other Library Wikis. 3.1 English. 3.1.1 Conference Wikis. 3.1.1.1 2007; 3.1.1.2 2006; 3.1.1.3 2005; 3.1.1.4 2004 ...
Wikis - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
Wikis in the workplace: How wikis can help manage knowledge in library reference services by Angela Kille. Published in LIBRES 16, no. 1. ...
LibraryWikis - LibraryWikis is a wiki about wikis us...
Jun 24, 2007 ... The article and the companion wiki, LibraryWikis ... Examples of library wikis are presented within the article, as is a discussion for why ...
Wikis and Libraries: Resources, Articles and Links
Antioch New England Graduate School Library Wiki - self-paced training tool for ... Wikis in the Workplace: How Wikis Can Help Manage Knowledge in Library ...
Library Wikis - Library Reference
Contents. 1 Library Wikis A-E; 2 Library Wikis F-M; 3 Library Wikis N-Z; 4 Library Wikis Grouped by Subject. Library Wikis A-E ...

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Reasons to use a wiki with your library 

Your patrons can contribute to your library's information
it's fun
you can communicate and collaborate on projects with library employees
you can organize library resources easier.

Library Wikis 

Are library wikis the future?

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yes all libraries will eventually have one

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Library Wiki Video 

As the Wiki Turns

iHCPL theatre presents the drama of wikis. This video is copyright Harris County Public Library.

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Places to set up a library wiki 

Wet Paint
Use Wet Paint to create a wiki. This site offers colorful backgrounds and more web page like wikis.
Media Wiki
Use the same software Wikipedia is based on to set up a wiki for your library.
PB Wiki
Another wiki platform, with free and paid options.

Learn all about what a wiki is. 

A wiki ( ) is a website that allows the easywiki, n. Wiki Made Easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor.wiki, n. Oxford English Dictionary (draft entry, March 2007) Requires Paid Subscription Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used to create collaborative websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, in corporate intranets, and in knowledge management systems.

Most wikis serve a specific purpose, and off topic material is promptly removed by the user community. Such is the case of the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia. In contrast, open purpose wikis accept all sorts of content without rigid rules as to how the content should be organized.

Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work." "Wiki" ( or ) is a Hawaiian word for "fast". "Wiki" has been backronymed by some to "What I Know Is".

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