Blogging Libraries Wiki
Those of you who have attended one of my presentations about weblogs and libraries might remember me showing a long list of libraries with weblogs. That list is now available as a wiki. Amanda writes about her decision to change formats.
I asked Amanda if there’s a place in her list for librarians like me who write about the profession, but do not blog for a library. Yeah, it’s a wiki, which means I could potentially just stick the scratchpad on there somewhere, but I’m not sure what her intent with the wiki is. If she just wants to have a list of library weblogs, then the scratchpad really doesn’t belong there. Same with library groups and associations and conferences, etc., etc.
I noticed the link to the Blogging Libraries Wiki in a long post Meredith wrote about how 2006 might just be the year of the wiki for real and how libraries are using the technology.
This stuff is great. Not only does it give me content in the Wikis department that has nothing to do with Wikimedia Foundation projects, but it’s fabulous fodder for a presentation on wikis I’m giving at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference on June 12.
But … speaking of Wikimedia stuff: don’t forget the deadline for proposals for sessions, papers, birds of a feather, etc., is Sunday, April 30. We’re having a big Wikimania meeting at blog group on Thursday. Some Wikipedians are eating ice cream at Toscanini’s in Central Square, Cambridge, on Friday (4/28) at 7 pm. I think they should build an ice cream sundae wiki style.
April 27th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
Speaking of SLA and wikis… I was batting around the idea of a conference wiki, but we’re not sure if that would pull people away from the blog (Quoth the Raven… Baltimore, http://sla-maryland.blogspot.com) or if it did, if that would be a big deal… We do want to channel FAQs through the blog so they will help the most people… Thoughts?
April 28th, 2006 at 1:33 am
Well, both formats have their merits. I would say go for both. The challenge with that, of course, is that you’d need some kind of bridge between the two, so people would know that information is in both places, that they might find answers to their questions in both places.
But I’m biased and technically savvy. What do others think?