LMITNSU

Young Adult Corner: Fun with Wikis

By Stephanie Bailey-White

First a little background about wikis:

- A wiki is an easily editable web page – no knowledge of HTML is required

- Wikis can be as open to editing as one would like

- Wiki software is usually free or low cost

- Wikis are truly collaborative, allowing several people to create and edit content on one page

If you’re not familiar with wikis, here’s a great one to get started with: Library Success, a Best Practice Wiki: http://www.libsuccess.org/ 

“This wiki was created to be a one-stop-shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. All over the world, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized.

If you’ve done something at your library that you consider a success, please write about it in the wiki or provide a link to outside coverage. If you have materials that would be helpful to other librarians, add them to the wiki. And if you know of a librarian or a library that is doing something great, feel free to include information about it or links to it. Basically, if you know of anything that might be useful to other librarians (including useful websites), this is the place to put it. I hope this wiki will be a venue where people can share ideas with one another and where librarians can learn to replicate the successes of other libraries.”

This wiki is not run by any commercial entity and does not represent any commercial interests. There’s some great information about services to teens (under services to specific groups) and tons of other great resources. I hope to add information about The Scoop and I urge all of you to add information about the great things that are going on in your libraries. Have fun with wikis today!