In this excercise I learned about Wikis' and also explored a few Wikis'. I explored two on libraries the first I just glanced at, the second was called Core Competencies Wiki I played around on this one a bit and found it extremely easy to navigate through, as promised. I also wanted to see what all the hipe was about with Wikipedia and, wow, there is alot of stuff on there. You can click on a subject of interest and then it gives you more selections to narrow your search, because of this site size and apparent popularity it was a little more difficult to navigate through but I'm sure I could do it if I had time.
I do think that Wikis' can be and already are useful to libraries. They can be set up to keep an entire city with numerous libraries up to date on things, the information can be changed easily which is a good thing in the library world because things are always changing. It could be very useful. Also, a wiki could be created by the library system for it's customers. The library system could make a wiki for it's book clubs, they could add a link to the wiki on the libraries web site so it could be found easily by participants. Then they could add opinions on the book and so on. I think it's pretty cool.
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