Can you imagine an open wiki for vbgov for citizens or visitors? Rochester has the optimism/pessimism pages that appear open, plus various other obviously interactive sites—the “find cheap gas” one was interesting—the price a lot higher than VB today.
University of Calgary’s Sandbox (where users can check out their entry without “breaking” anything) is cool.
SJCPL subject guide is fascinating. If customers can add to it, then it is a great tool for browsing for nonfiction books.
Finding government information on SJ PL (the link to Indiana govt) seems so much easier than on our web site. This could be an entirely new way for us to organize the web links resources on our web site. It could also be a way for folks to talk about their experiences using a particular link, or to give tips for searching a particular link, or to add a link for an additional related resource.
Downside—to what degree would our info folks need to vet these? Would a disclaimer be necessary?
What a concept—putting the policy and procedure manuals in a wiki—while not self-indexing, it could still be a better, easier way to update and find materials than the old-fashioned (?!) online format. Limiting editors would take care of any inappropriate additions or editing.
Clearly, like so many other ideas new to me in Learning 2.0, wikis have lots of potential uses in libraries. The trick is going to be figuring out what is the best “2.0” way of providing specific types of information. I’ve noticed that several different traditional library services (for example, Reader’s advisory) have been presented using various Web 2.0 tools—wikis, of course, but also library thing, blogs, and other additions of subject headings and reviews.
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