What can my library do with a wiki? How about making subject guides..
Librarians have been creating subject guides on the Internet since before there was a World Wide Web. With the many “hats” that most librarians have to wear in any given day, updating the subject guides may not be a priority. Subject guides can languish online with dead links to long-gone websites and without links to newer, more useful sites. This may be because the librarian doesn’t have the time to update them or because the librarian must give the updates to someone else who actually puts them on the Web.
A wiki is a great format for a subject guide. Because it can be edited by anyone, patrons can add to the collection of useful resources and can prune away the dead links. The librarian can moderate the wiki and decide what websites can stay in the guide, or he or she can let everyone contribute freely. It’s a great way to develop a subject guide that really represents the interests of its users and doesn’t put the entire burden of finding websites on the librarian.
The librarian at Ohio University has set up a Biz Wiki in order to keep an up to date research guide for the staff, students and other librarians.
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