I looked at all the library wikis listed under the Discovery Exercise. I liked the Book Lovers wiki and could see how a wiki for the Annual Conference could be useful if you wanted more info on what to see and do while at the conference. It would be nice to get that info from people knowledgeable about a conference if you had never been to one, or about a city you hadn't been to before.
In one article it stated that in public libraries, where the technological skills of employees can range from high to non-existent, wikis can allow everyone the ability to develop the website, which would then reflect the imagination and good ideas of the entire organization, not just a select few "tech-savvy" people.
Ways I think our library could use a wiki would be for subject guides, and maybe for a book lovers club. I also think the use of a community wiki is a good idea to disseminate community info, but am not sure it wouldn't be better set up on the city's web page. Oh, I know we need to attract people to the library who may otherwise never visit it, but where do small libraries find the time to do this?
Using the Library Success Wiki might be a good idea, if the library staff has done something truly creative. That way libraries could look for things to help promote their libraries, or other services they might be able to use.
And I think in larger libraries, they could use a wiki to share policy and reference manuals, as well as other relevant news.
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