So many ways to wiki!

I loved all of the examples of library wikis we got to explore this week.  Seeing so many different ones really helped open up my mind to the different possibilities for using wikis in my library.  My original goal in joining this class was to find better ways to serve our distance students.  A wiki seems a natural solution for allowing geographically dispersed students to work together.  In my online classes when I was in library school, we did our group projects via chat and e-mail.  How great it would have been to use a wiki to put our projects together.  It can also be nice form for presentation.

 This would also be a great format for expanding our subject guides.  We have pared them down tremendously because upkeep was such a pain.  But a wiki could solve that problem nicely.  Our current guides are primarily links to our various databases by discipline.  I would love to add a link on that page that would take you to a wiki for all the other resources out there.  And inviting professors and even students to contribute to that would be another great way to make users a more integral part of the library.

 I would also love to see us use a wiki internally for our various staff documents.  I have a file full of paper “cheat sheets” created by various staff members for different needs.  To move these documents from our personal Word files, etc. into a wiki where they could live and be updated as needed would be such an improvement.  And no more routing around drafts of every policy procedure for comment!  I hope I can get everyone else on staff as excited about this as I am!