Wikis

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Thing #16
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I went to the Library Bloggers Wiki and was surprised to see how many public library blogs were listed. This could definitely be a useful resource. Nancy Pearl's Wiki was very interesting as well. At the Library Success wiki, I was very impressed with the wealth of information available. I thought the EZ Library Program Database was a great idea. I would think that would be a pretty difficult thing to maintain however. I found the items under the "Professional" topic useful, particularly, Keeping Up With the Profession. I will visit this wiki again.

Then I went to Ocean County Library's article on Wikipedia and clicked on the history tab. I did some other looking around and had to laugh when I saw that the previous mascot of OCL was a sea captain called Captain Book. I just thought this was really funny. As a former school library media specialist, I am still not sold on Wikipedia. I just can't get passed the fact that all of this unreliable information is out there and kids are taking it as fact. I had a rule that they could not use Wikipedia as a source.