What power to be able to go into someone else's wiki and correct, change, delete, update, add your own thoughts, ideas and knowledge even though you know someone may come in and edit or delete that masterpiece of information that you've just created.
Seriously Via Wiki seems a great way to collaborate and share knowledge with others of like interests and as well as in libraries.
Some ways in which wikis can be used in libraries are in library reference services for knowledge management - collaborating and pooling knowledge with information coming from the user back to the library in the form of participation and feedback; a wiki could be used in Readers' advisory and subject guides which facilitate customer feedback and can be edited by patrons who can add newer and useful resources which reflect the users' interests.
Libraries can call on customers' knowledge to improve library services, e.g. developing library collections which better serve community needs.
I particularly enjoyed the Book Lovers wiki from Princeton Public Library with their book reviews and Index to reviews (found one The Bookseller of Kabul which needed editing). I also found useful and clearly explained were Libraryjournal.com and the Library Success link.
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Now, now, don't be wiked, remember that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely!!! You are quite right though, there are endless possibilites for collaboration with other experts in any discipline - as long as it is the experts doing the wiki-ing and not the amateurs. See my blog re the library that had to stop people messing around with their wiki! That would really get on my wik if I had a wiki!
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