The Library Success Wiki is an international collection of information and links for libraries, by libraries and about libraries. The main purpose is to share innovative ideas with the library community. It was created by Meredith Farkas, who describes herself as a librarian, writer, teacher and tech geek. On the main page there is a link to the Creative Commons License. It states that you can use and change any material on the site as long as you attribute the material correctly, you do not use any of it for commercial purposes and anything you use or share must have a similar license. In order to edit pages you need to create an account, giving your email address. This site contains a wealth of information on many, many topics including community, technology, selling your library, resource sharing and countless others. There is an alphabetical list of categories and a search function. As this is essentially an indexing site, it can get tiresome going through many pages to only to get a link to another site. The website also looks old, with a simplistic Wikipedia style. This said, if you take the time to really explore the site, it can be an invaluable resource. It is also updated regularly and as it is maintained by library staff, is authoritative. The site can be found at:http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Meredith Farkas, 2010, Library Success: A Best Practies Wiki, viewed 19 April, 2010 http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
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Sounds interesting. I haven't looked at it yet so will do so when you create your annotated citation.
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Leonie
Don't forget the citation should include the URL!
ReplyDeleteAt first when exploring the wiki, I found it tenative and quite boring to the eye, but once i got into reading the various sources of information on it I found it quite interesting, it kept my attention, but my own personal oppion is they need to do something more to make it more eye captivating. That aside, a really good website.
ReplyDeleteI like how this wiki gives links to Libraries that have found success using their strategies. i checked out the open source tech section, as it's good to look into for our blogs.
ReplyDeleteGreat - finished this critical annotation now, Josh
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