Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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.

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