Latest revision as of 17:04, 14 February 2010

[edit] Examples of Wiki Uses

[edit] Community Info & Guides

• GRPLpedia Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
• Loudonpedia Loundon County Public Library (PBwiki)
• The Stevens County Wiki Project A community wiki site for rural Stevens County in northeastern Washington, hosted by the Stevens County Rural Library District

[edit] Conference Sites

• ALA New Orleans 2006 Wiki

[edit] Intranets

• OSU Libraries Wiki Oregon State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. Uses Confluence.
• Staff Wiki University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA. (mediawiki)
• UL Staff Wiki University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA. (pmwiki)
• Albany County Public Library Staff Wiki (pbwiki)
• Memphis Public Library Wiki Memphis, Tennessee, USA. (mediawiki)

[edit] Library and Information Science Topics

• Environmental Scan Environmental scan analyzing trends and issues affecting the library profession in general, and federal libraries in particular. (PBwiki) by Cindy Boeke and others
• Library Instruction Wiki
• Library Outreach Wiki
• Library Technology Training Wiki This wiki contains documents, resources and instructions how to make wikis using PBWiki and how to create online surveys using SurveyMonkey. (PBwiki) by Cindy Boeke
• LISWiki: Library and Information Science Wiki
• Michigan Libraries Wiki
• San Diego Librarians Wiki
• Archivopedia, the archives wiki encyclopedia

[edit] Library Web Sites

• USC Aiken Gregg-Graniteville Library web site (PmWiki)

[edit] Project Management

• Durham County Library Strategic Plan Durham County, North Carolina, USA. Created for the strategic planning process and implementation of the Durham County Library in Durham, North Carolina. (pbwiki)
• The MIT Engineering and Science Libraries B-Team (Massachusetts Institute of Techology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (seedwiki)

[edit] Staff Manuals & Service Point Manuals

• Antioch University New England Library Staff Training and Support Wiki Keene, New Hampshire, USA (seedwiki)
• Reference Wiki, Baruch College Password-protected. Publicly viewable [ screenshots](pbwiki)
• Reference Wiki, Butler University Libraries (seedwiki)
• North Metro Technical College Wiki Acworth, Georgia, USA (pbwiki)
• UL Cataloguers Desktop Glucksman Library, University of Limerick, Ireland(Wikia)

[edit] Subject Guides, Course Guides, & Resource Guides

• Bentley Library Research Help Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA (mediawiki)
• Subject-based Guides Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont, USA (pbwiki)
• GRPLedia Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA (mediawiki)
• MULibraryPedia Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. (mediawiki)
• Library Research Guides Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, USA (mediawiki)
• Biz Wiki Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA (mediawiki)
• Lit Wiki Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA (mediawiki)
• Comm Wiki Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA (mediawiki)
• SJCPL Subject Guides St. Joseph Public Library, South Bend, Indiana, USA (mediawiki)
• Electronic Resources Wiki University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK (mediawiki)
• Healey Library Course Resource Hub University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (wikispaces)
• Boatipedia University of Richmond, Richmond, VA (mediawiki)
• Researching Forced Migration: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources Massachusetts, USA (pbwiki)

[edit] Miscellaneous

• University of Calgary
• Fontys Mediatheek Wiki (Dutch)
• Mac Library Experience McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

[edit] Related Articles

• Wikis about Teen Library Services

[edit] Bibliography

• Social Machines by Wade Roush in Technology Review August 2005
• Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not by Brian Lamb. Featured in Educause Review, Sept/Oct 2004.
• Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool by David Mattison. Featured in Searcher in April, 2003.
• Making the Case for a Wiki by Emma Tonkin. Featured in Ariadne in January, 2005.
• Teaching and Learning Online with Wikis by Naomi Augar, Ruth Raitman and Wanlei Zhou.
• ALA Wiki: What I learned and what I’m doing with it by Meredith Farkas, July 2005
• Meredith's OPAL Talk on Wikis
• Step by step guide to making your first wiki using PBwiki (PDF version) by Cindy Boeke. PPT version: Step by step guide to making your first wiki using PBwiki (Click on the link).
• Sandbox Wikibibliography
• Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to the Successful Adoption and Use of Wikis in Collaborative Knowledge Management by John P. Walker, Jr. Honor's thesis from 2006.
• Wikis in the workplace: How wikis can help manage knowledge in library reference services by Angela Kille. Published in LIBRES 16, no. 1.
• Collaborating with wikis by Rachel Bridgewater and Anne-Marie Deitering. Presented at Internet Librarian International 2005, October 10, 2005, London, UK.
• The Long Road Toward Subject Guide 2.0 by Meredith Farkas, 24 October 2007.
• Using a Wiki as a Research Guide: A Year's Experience by Chad Boeninger, 13 July 2006