Thursday, March 20, 2008

The Wonderful World of Wikis

Wikis replace the traditional way of gathering ideas/information on a task that has to be done by a group/team of people. By using this manner of communicating and organising it eliminates the need to get everybody together and which in turn saves time and resources.

In the library, wikis can provide and excellent tool for not only the public but the employees of the library too. For example if there has been a certain way of carrying out a procedure in the library and it has been set up as a Wiki, if somebody finds a better way to carry out the task then they may go into it and change it allowing people who use it in the future to benefit from the new knowledge. Also we may put up ideas and designs for new thing s at the library as wikis and the public can come together and input ideas into making it better.

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