Wednesday, August 6, 2008

#16 So What's in a wiki?

Wiki's seem to be for librarian oriented discussions and topics. I am a clerk and found very few resources that pertain to us. I enjoyed the SJCPL wiki most it was in a format easy for my eyes to view.

I don't know exactly how knowing about another libraries wiki is a helpful resource tool for a JPL customer. I guess if JPL has a wiki then viewing ours might make more sense to me.

It wasn't apparent by viewing the sample wiki's of any mischief. I did see on one wiki that you had to at least register an email address. The reasoning that all things are relative to a persons belief, knowledge and understanding level, so what may be interesting to me might not be of interests or relevance to another person.

I can see it as a good resource tool but again for librarians mostly.

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