"Named after the Hawaiian term for “quick,” wikis are interactive Web sites to which users can contribute. In a wiki, any user with a Web browser can add entirely new pages or add new content to existing pages, as well as change or delete existing information. Users can also edit the organization of the wiki, in addition to the content, and need not know HTML or have Web design skills since Web-based forms provide the simple editing interface. The software that runs a wiki is called a wiki engine and there are many free open source wiki engines available to run wikis.
Although some wikis are intended for the public, like Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) or Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki (http://www.libsuccess.org), this technology is now being adopted by organizations as a collaborative tool for managing knowledge among their employees. A wiki can be used in multiple ways as a conversational knowledge management system to support the goals of many organizations, including libraries. This paper explores how wikis can be used in library reference services to manage knowledge and why they are well-suited to this environment. "
Wikis could be used by libraries in many different ways - as a space for collaborative work among staff, &/or for input from all members of the library community. If you want your library to become the hub of all community information, then Wikis are for you.
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| Wiki......another way of sharing information! |
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