I love looking up things on wikipedia to see the shifts and changes in information about a person or subject. In fact, this morning I looked up Irvin Mayfield, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Public Library (see earlier post). Can't trust the information? Sometimes no, but it's interesting to see what's there one day and gone a few weeks later.
I was not at all impressed with the SJCPL wiki. I thought it was messy and some of the subject guides had little or no information, which was frustrating. If you're gonna do it, do it big! I loved the Wyoming authors wiki, however. Clean, concise, easily navigable--very professional.
Under the tutelage of our ever exploratory technology coordinator, Brett, we are looking at using an internal staff wiki to keep track of daily staffing issues. Our library has five branches, four of which regularly have at least one person out sick, at least one person on vacation, and at least one person at a meeting. We need to shift staff around on a regular basis and a staff wiki will let everyone know where everyone else is. We have high hopes for this solution!
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