I think is the last one I need to have the required amount. It's been a wild ride. Haha...
Anyway, I'd like to write for a bit about the usefulness of the wiki as a library tool. The greatest asset of the wiki is also its greatest downfall. The wiki depends upon people to actually update it. If no one uses a wiki, it becomes a worthless resource and can actually lead to more problems than might have occurred in its absence. Once a library sets out to use a wiki as a method of recording and providing information either in terms of merely its own employees or to the patrons, it can lead to everyone assuming that someone else will be the one who updates it. This is based on personal experience. Using a wiki without having a clear schedule of people responsible for updating it with regularity, can lead to a situation in which changes to library policy have not been tracked or recorded...or at least not on the wiki. This can lead to employees consulting an out of date document and lead to the inadvertent violation of library policy.
I find the idea of introducing social tagging into the library environment to be intriguing. I think that it should be used as a method of bolstering the preexisting library cataloging system and associated metadata. Barring any issues of intentional abuse, this could greatly improve search and retrieval ability and provide patrons with higher quality service.
Muddy Point: I have no muddy point. It's all clear skies this week!
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