Wikis

I have to admit that I have always liked the wikipedia, at least for my own home use. I know it gets a bad rap among librarians and I would never use it with a customer at the reference desk. But I do find it very useful at home.

I really wasn't acquainted with other types of wikis. So this was fun to look into. I really liked the Wyoming author's wiki http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/ It would be great to have one like that for Montana authors. Although it most likely would take a lot of work and effort to get it to a useful point.

I went to a meeting last week with others from the Montana Shared Catalog, at which, it was mentioned several times when we talked about how to get information out to others, that a wiki might be the answer. It is a good way to get instructions and information in one place and out to many people. But you have to be able to train people to remember to look there and for many it is just one more step that they don't have time for. Or one more thing to remember.