I've heard about WIKIs a long time ago and visited the website twice maybe in the past. But I never gave it so much thought, much less of what use it can be in a library environment. Having gone through all the links in this lesson, I realised that there's so much potential 'hidden' there.
The Wisconsin Heritage Wiki and the Montana History Wiki will be very useful guides for our own Local Studies and Historical Society, if and when they decide to create their own wikis.
In checking out the Library Services: A Best Practice Wiki, I found out that there's nothing for Adult Literacy. There's a section for Information Literacy but this is different from Adult Literacy or ESL. I also checked out the Blogging Libraries WIKI and found only one NSW public library listed: Mosman Library. Good on you, Mosman Library.
Perhaps the NSW Public Libraries Literacy Working Group can have this "setting up or contributing a section on Literacy" in Library Services: A Best Practice Wiki as a project.
I can see that the Wiki can be another powerful tool for promoting our library services, programs and events. But this is going to be a collaborative effort for the library team. After we (the staff) finish this lesson, I can see us working on our areas individually and putting all these together under the library wiki.
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