#16

All the links for this unit were working so I was able to get along today with fewer roadblocks! I visited several wikis, including the Princeton Library book wiki which was created for a summer reading program and allowed patrons to contribute their own book reviews. A good idea to engage patrons in the library web site, but the reviews themselves are a bit like reading those customer comments on amazon.com. More successful, in my view, is the Library Success wiki for sharing best practices. This demonstrates that if the community involved in creating a wiki have some professional interest and standards in common the end result is better quality. I think there are many potential uses for wikis in MCPL.