Author: bibliotecaria

New Wiki

Last week I got an introduction to wikis. I’d visited wikis before but had never even considered contributing to one or starting one. I really like the editing features for group/team projects. I can see this working really well with documents that go through many changes before arriving at the finished product. I imagine that this would get more mileage than a blog–at least in the libraries where I’ve worked. For some reason, a blog seems more personal and more driven by the blog author. Wikis seem more communal.

Using Wet Paint was a little more frustrating since editing for me didn’t work well in Safari. I was able to do what I wanted when I switched to Firefox. That’s definitely a minus for me. I think I may try PB Wiki to see how it functions and whether it’s more Safari-friendly.

I will say that I definitely like the template choices for WordPress blogs better than the Wet Paint wiki templates.

The Value of Blogs in Medical Librarianship

I’ve been taking advantage of blogs in my work as a medical librarian for a while. I subscribe to quite a few and read them daily (sometimes twice daily) to keep up with what’s happening in the medical librarianship field as well as in technology advances, health policy and health reform. In the organization where I work now, there is no intranet, so a blog may not be doable unless we added one to our web site. Whether visitors to our web site would participate (or whether our own staff would participate) is another matter. Since many in the org tend to be technophobic, I know that I have to move very slowly to implement new things.