Boreham Library Staff Wiki

 

 

 

Boreham Library Staff Wiki A Wiki for Us! Library Wiki Use Self-Paced Tutorials Group members Drafts

 

A Wiki for Us!

 

Okay, what are you doing here, and what is this wiki stuff, anyway?

 

wikiwiki means "quick" or "quickly" in Hawaiian. Wiki, therefore, refers to a quick way to do something -- in this case, create a web page.

 

"A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] or [ˈwiː.kiː]^[1]) is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a site, or to specific wiki sites, including the computer science site WikiWikiWeb (the original wiki) and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia."

Source: Wikipedia, of course!

 

Basically, a wiki is a program that makes it easy to create a web page quickly, with little or no knowledge of HTML and XML and all those letters.

TWIKI is a wiki, and the campus webmasters use it to make it easier to create and update web pages. (It's also a way of standardizing the look of web pages, by setting certain limits and styles within it.)

 

In this case, we're going to use this wiki (blstaff) to share information, how-to stuff, and train each other.

 

You just need to follow four simple rules:

 

1. Read the information

 

2. follow the instructions (which are the lines that begin with an * asterisk), and

 

3. give feedback in the form of comments. See the Comments button above? It has one there already, just as an example.

 

4. Don't put anything on here that you don't want the public to see.

 

Other staff can see your comments, so be specific, and if something doesn't work for you, then say so.

This is one possible method we could use in the future to train student workers as well as full-time staff.

 

• Oh, yeah - on the right, in the white box -- click on the Sidebar tab. You'll get a quick list of links within the wiki.

 

AND---- one special tip: each time you go back and forth between the wiki and anything else you're working on, you can avoid reaching for the mouse each time. Just use the ALT and TAB keys, and you'll switch between applications without moving your hand over to the mouse. Once you get used to it, it's a lot faster. I tend to use my thumb on the ALT and my middle finger on the TAB, but you find your own method.

 

Library Wiki Use

 

FIRST: when this page first appears, on the column on the right, click on Sidebar to get the list of pages available.

 

While you're using this wiki, think about how else we might use something like this.

 

An example of how a library might use a wiki is at BizWiki from the Ohio U. Library. It allows anyone to edit it, but that doesn't have to be the case for every wiki. Editing could be limited to just library staff, for example, and any comments could be held until/unless approved for posting.

 

St. Joseph County (Indiana) Public Library created the SJCPL Subject Guides as wikis on all sorts of subjects.

 

Self-Paced Tutorials

The first example is a series of self-paced tutorials using the latest computer technology, to help you become more effective with your computer,

and to learn about some of the new "social" software that is part of Web 2.0 (which is a hotly debated term, but mostly means using the World Wide

Web to it's greatest capabilities to enhance learning and access to information and services).

 

Click Web 1-0 to 2-0 in Small Bytes to begin the tutorial, or use the sidebar to jump to the next segment in your coursework.

 

 

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Group members

 

• Dennis
• Wilma
• Martha
• Elizabeth
• Joni
• Carolyn
• Patti
• Diane
• Tina
• Sharon

 

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Drafts

 

 

Draft 1

Draft 2