Wiki wiki what?

Wiki is fun to say, if nothing else, which puts it on my radar.

Anyway, in exploring some of the wikis offered by the learning 2.0 class, I have really expanded my knowledge of them. Prior to today, I had used wikipedia for finding a variety of quick information, filling in my gaps of knowledge when something small came up, or doing some preliminary thinking about research. Senior year at Kenyon, several of my friends began working on Kenyon's version of Wikipedia, KCPedia, which provides historical information about Kenyon, though is still a work in progress.

Looking today at some of the other wiki sites out there, I realized what a useful and collaborative effort it has potential for being for a library. I particularly like the idea of a book review wiki that links into the library catalog like this one developed by Princeton Public Library. Granted that site is old, from 2006, but as a model I think it is interesting. There are many possibilities for wiki functionality in the library today, and it's only beginning.