Digging for treasure

Thing 17

The sandbox was great fun. I cannot think of a use for wikis in my library at the moment, primarily because I would be the only one prepared to use the technology, and because we are small and it is easy to share in person. At some point, I would like to see us do something in the way of collecting community history, and perhaps a wiki might be useful for that. It would take some training, though, to set it up so that it is user-proof. The sandbox method can be quite messy!

Wiki is Hawaiian for fast

Thing 16

I really liked the Library Success wiki. Someday I will have clever things to add to it. In the meantime, it is full of cool links from other librarians. I used a wiki once in a class for a group project. We were writing a group paper, and we were each to add a "page" and post our part for others to see and edit. It was less than successful, though, because the paper was too long - everyone's part was several screens in length, and the editing was awkward. We resorted to sharing document files in the end. So wikis are not for everything. (Photo from IDblog)