Wikis
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Contents
Examples of Wiki Uses
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
Conference Sites
- ALA New Orleans 2006 Wiki
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)
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
- LIS Publications Wiki A collection of publication profiles for librarians who write.
- LISWiki: Library and Information Science Wiki
- Michigan Libraries Wiki
- San Diego Librarians Wiki
- Archivopedia, the archives wiki encyclopedia
Library Web Sites
- USC Aiken Gregg-Graniteville Library web site (PmWiki)
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)
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)
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)
Miscellaneous
- University of Calgary
- Fontys Mediatheek Wiki (Dutch)
- Mac Library Experience McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Related Articles
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