I just finished reading and exploring a couple of different wiki. I am already familiar with them to some extent, we are required to have them in English at school. But reading about them has me thinking about all of the great things that they can be used for in libraries.
1. A wiki for lost items: It may sound a little cheesy at first but I think it could be extremely useful. Imagine a page that has a picture and a brief description of all of the items currently lost in our workroom. The relative ease of editing wiki pages means that it would be easily updated and that patrons could access if from home to find out if they have lost items.
2. A wiki for library programs: If a librarian is hosting a program they could give a detailed description of it on their wiki for patrons and workers to access. Again the ease of updating or changing a page would make it very easy to say, alert patrons of any changes in dates of a program, tell other librarians how many volunteers and children are expected to be there, materials needed for the program, etc. Librarians could post ideas for programs that they have and supervisors could simply go through and add some symbol next to the idea on the page to show that it's been approved.
3. A wiki for librarians (books): Librarians could use it to list the books that patrons seem to be responding to very well. Other librarians might then know what to stock their shelves with or even which books are most likely to be on hold.
4. A wiki for books on hold: that's another thing wiki might be good for: letting librarians know which books they might have that they have put a hold on. That way, if another librarian wanted a book they could check and see it's availability and even find out the quality of the book (if the librarian with the book were willing to write one).
There are a lot of other ways that wiki can be implemented in our library systems I'm sure, but these are the ones I came up with so far, I'd say they have a lot of potential...the wiki pages I mean not my ideas necessarily
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