Week 5 Wikis

Looked at video clip and Library Success Wiki overview.Followed up the details in communiti of interest, workplace application and government.
The 3 wikis I explored were the full Library Success: a best practice wiki, Book Lovers wiki and the Montana History wiki. I found them all different and interesting.

The Book Lovers wiki was interesting and entertaining with review contributions in many genres and a featured review, for what seemed an informative history of the plumbing of civilization.
A good point was made about reviews going direct to the catalogue. Reviews there might be very helpful to a borrower. I wonder are these contributions checked before they go to the Princton Public Library catalogue. There would probably be a screening process of some kind.
The reviews on the LHS did include some Australian authors.
Something like this could be used as a site on our website, linked to the Catalogue entries. A useful resource for borrowers and staff, and something all the library patrons could contribute to at some time.

The Montana History wiki was not open for editing. Any comments need to be emailed to the group's email. A way to vet the contributions for accuracy I suppose. Contributions from the public are acknowledged, their sources listed and at bottom of the page any revisions are listed.
When dealing with history there is a need for the most accurate records for the time. These principles would need to be considered if the Family history section of the library was to incorporate such a wiki in its collection.
The full Library Success: a best practice wiki was a great site and up to date. Good to access for rural librarians for sharing ideas, however when I went to Services for Specific Groups I was disappointed not to find any entries.Perhaps I have to log in but I have to follow this up at work.???????????????MB I also signed in but didn't receive confirmation. Will go back to it again
Many interesting and useful sections and headings for RA. Went into Find A Good Book.net. Good for RA help and I would take info from but it was not possible to give info to. Book Club Resource.com - Reading resources - Classic Bookshelf does encourage contributions to "comments at classicbookshelf dot com".
It would seem there are many forms of wiki and not all are like Wikipedia where anyone can contribute.Some are closed to staff only. I found one site Antioch UNE that was an inhouse wiki for library staff and training support wiki. This would be a good ready reference to be up to date with changes.
You could use a wiki for reading group reviews perhaps but a blog might be more appropriate as you wouldn't be editing their comments.
It would be good to put your libraries blog on The Blogging Libraries wiki. All part of sharing and learning!!

Took PB wiki tour. Added an entry to the NSW learning 2.0 wiki re reference services.
Looked at the Possible Next Generation Catalogues - National Library rethinking the catalogue.