Wikis

Wikis are is an excellent collaborative tool for sharing knowledge. The Wikis Web pages can be edited by anyone, or a restricted group of users. You do not need have any knowledge about html. Many wikis have additional features such as page version histories, and RSS feeds. Wikis are a good way of gathering facts and knowledge quickly to a large number of people.

I discovered that Wikis have a wide range of applications that libraries can use.

The following is a list of applications that Wikis that libraries could use:

• Collaborative spaces
• Professional development
• Internal communication
• Research guides
• Web content management
• Personal to-do lists
• Subject guides
• Reference resources
• Assignments
• Library instruction resources
• Conference planning
• Annotating the library catalogue
• Book reviews
• Library newsletters