The "Library Success: A Best Practice Wiki" was the most interesting site. I looked under the category "Cataloging" and there were some nice links to interesting projects, articles, websites, and blogs. I did not know that there was a Catalogablog or a FRBR blog, for example. It was really nice to have links to items of interest to catalogers on one convenient site. I found the article "Cataloging the blogosphere" particularly intriguing!
We tried to use a Wiki last January as part of the Unicorn GL3.1 Java Client upgrade as a way for catalogers system-wide to share functionality they discovered or questions they had within a collaborative web environment space. There was some traffic on the wiki but really not as much as we had anticipated. The PCC also tried to introduce Wikis this year as a means for groups to utilize this online tool for sharing information -- replacing the more traditional email listservs and websites. There was quite a bit of resistance and practically no buy-in because people saw this as just "another place to have to check for information."
I can see how useful this tool could be for conference/meeting planning, the collaborative editing of documents, links to other informational sites, etc. Particularly nice for those of us who never mastered HTML.
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