Misty's Tech Trak Blog

Quest 9-Wiki, Wiki, Wiki

Ahhh, wikis. Working in a library and working previously for a virtual reference company, I have tried to stay away from using Wikipedia as a source because of the fact that anybody can post. However, when a subject is difficult to find it is a great place to get started.
We have been exploring the option of wikis here in the Reference Department as a means of sharing information with each other. I signed up for a wiki account and looked it over thinking I would create one that all the reference staff could use to post information. I actually got the idea from the St Joseph Public library, whose wiki I had seen many months ago. It is really a great way to share information and have it right there at your computer. However, creating a wiki takes a little more effort than some of the other technologies and I had a little too much going on to sit down and try to create one. I hope that in the future I can possibly use it to share nonprofit and grant writing resources for the Foundation Center collection.

posted by Misty Jones @ 9:18 AM