What to do with Wikipedia?

Interesting article…..

penultimate paragraph: “Ultimately, the academy has to stop fighting Wikipedia and work to make it better. Academic administrators need to find ways to recognize Wikipedia writing as part of legitimate scholarship for tenure, promotion, and research points. When professors are writing the articles or guiding their students in article production and revision, we may become much less paranoid about this wildly popular resource. Rather than castigating it, we can use it as a tool to improve information literacy.”
http://www.infotoday.com/online/mar08/Badke.shtml

EndUser 2007

The complete conference write-up will be posted on the wiki. I’ll include a link once it is complete.

Preview of My Talk on Wikis

Tomorrow afternoon I am scheduled to give a brief talk on the FDU Librarywiki, here is a preview of my notes:

A wiki is a shared editing environment. It grows and improves by people editing existing pages and adding new pages.

Some examples of successful library wikis:

• Library Instruction Wiki Launched by librarians from Oregon. Includes handouts, outlines, presentations, and more.
• Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
• University of Connecticut UCONN Libraries Staff Wiki
• University of Minnesota Staff Home Page
• Ohio University Biz Wiki a reference and instruction wiki
• Ohio University Lit Wiki a reference and instruction wiki