I liked this lesson on wikis. I didn't realize, at first, that the term was generic, that Wikipedia is a type of wiki. Learn something new everyday, hopefully! Anyway, the information about wikis vs. blogs was very interesting. I can see now how a wiki would be a very useful internal staff tool at the library, as my coworkers have already posted. It would be quite useful for group projects, or it would also be an interesting patron-access point for book/program suggestions.
I also see how I can use one personally as I'm in charge of arranging for my little quilting group's 2008 retreat. Women Who Run With Scissors retreat annually, and it's been time consuming to send coordinating emails to figure out a time/place we could all agree to. A wiki might be an excellent tool to use, if I can get the others to access one. (Some of the 7 members are even less techie oriented than me, if you can believe it!)
I looked up Vesper, WI on Wikipedia and found that there was already an entry. JoAnn, their librarian, has developed a very nice entry about Vesper and discussed it on her blog. (I finally learned how to link using a hyperlink - my techie husband just showed me as I was suffering from blog envy, after seeing other bloggers link to posts or articles! OOOOHHHH, cool!) ANYWAYS, when I checked out Vesper, I saw her article but didn't see a link to the Vesper Library. Took me a few minutes to remember they're not online, hence no link big DUH!. So I guess I'll be working on the 2nd part of the Assignment. Tune in for my next installment later.
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Congrats on making it to lesson nine, Jill! And congrats on learning how to make links in your blog. I'm glad you're still enjoying learning new things, even on week 9!! :-)
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