Wikis are a great idea if you know the people that are contributing to it. I am very leery of Wikipedia, for example. The scholarship on such an open Wiki can be a little suspect at times. I wish students would approach the information they find on Wiki with equal suspicion and not take everything they find on it as gospel truth.
However, if you know the contributors and trust their scholarship then a Wiki can be a marvelous thing. I think Wikis could have great application in libraries - we should have a Children's Services Wiki were we can post ideas and outlines for programs, describe crafts that were successful and any other information that would help with planning and executing a program. Also lists of books that work well during storytime could be kept and added to on a Wiki. The Young Adult Wiki is a good example of what we could do. Adding comments after a program would be a snap. It would be nice to have a one-stop spot where all this valuable information could be kept.
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