Wikis

For this week's exercise I have looked at three wikis: Mnt Museum Library's exhibition wiki pages, Montana Historical Society Research Center's wiki and Princeton Public Library's Booklovers wiki. Of the three I am not sure if Montana History wiki is really a wiki as it is not open for editing but comments have to be emailed. I think this rather defies the purpose of having a wiki which is to promote information collaboration and sharing by providing a flexiblet and extensible information platform upon whcih users csan participate in contributing and editing entries.

I think intranet based wikis would be excellent for keeping desk diary whereby staff can continuously contribute and update each other on the daily businesses that are happening at the public floor. This can be very useful in enhancing the communication between staff coming on to the different shifts and keeping casual staff informed of One application of this could be a lost property wiki whereby staff can easily update and track the status of lost items handed in to the desk when answering relevant enquiries.