The End (or is it the beginning?)

Wow! there really are some cool tools out there in cyberspace & it has been a kick getting to learn about and use them. Now to apply them to my library - this could be the greatest challenge but I look forward to letting my users know about what is available to us. It is all about setting aside the time which, I have found, is easier if you are committed to something like this training. I would love to do this again!!

Wikis

As an avid Sunday LA TImes Crossworder I have a direct link to wikipedia & love it. I also enjoy some of the funny things people post to poke fun at entries but I never imagined, until now, the usefulness to libraries. I mean sure, a site to help navigate your city (I used the SLA Baltimore Wiki when I attended a couple of years ago) could be approipriate for a library but let strangers, or worse scientists, into my website, horrors!! After experiencing some of the other Wikis, however, I am a changed person. I think that my users, especially those who my work supports, may actually have some things to contribute in the dissemination of Montana Water Quality Information, it's their area of speciality, heck I am not a environmental scientist, why not let them do what they do. WHAT A CONCEPT!! I go now to set up a Wiki.