Well this bit was fun. I went in to look at the Princeton Booklovers Wiki and got sidetracked from the "Read around the World" link to the Princeton public library website. I liked their library lounge blog and the teen part of the site. Some good ideas for a Teen advisory Board and a Friday Night Live program of acappella events for teens too.
The Library Success : Best Practices Wiki looks more like the wikipedia I am used to. Interesting to note that this site has a warning banner that because of vandalism problems, e-mail confirmation is now required. I thought the sort of people who would contribute to a library benchmarking wiki would be too professional to try to vandalise it!
Wikis are a great tool for the informal sharing of knowledge and information. Lots of people are now prepared to share online in a way we never have in the past. They also look online for access to information and expect to take the facts along with the supposition that comes with a wiki being open to the voice of authority as well as the casual observer with something to add.
I think our public libraries are centres for community exchange and interaction and they can reflect the shared experiences of a group of people who essentially live or work near each other.
Wikis like this are an extension of that exchange of group knowledge.
The next challenge will be for us to make our wikis the place to look for information or to update community knowledge as proposed by webgurl at ERL.
cheers
Sue
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