Blogs and Wikis for Libraries

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Blogs and Wikis- for Libraries

• Emma Duke-Williams
• School of Computing

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Web 2.0

• What is Web 2.0?
• Library 2.0?

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Bonaria Biancu March 16, 2006
http//www.flickr.com/photos/bonaria/113222147/
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What is a blog?

• Reverse Chronological
• Categorised / tagged
• Archived material
• Comment facilities
• RSS feeds
• Links/ feeds from other blogs
• Database
• Mine

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Blogs and libraries

• University of Illinois Undergrad Library
• Oxford University
• Royal College of Midwifery
• Warwick
• Blogwithoutalibrary
• Penn Tags

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Whats a wiki?

• Comes from Hawaiian
• Quick
• No need to know HTML
• Collaborative
• User permissions.

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Problems with wikis

• Lack of control
• Disorganised
• Vandalism
• May have to use some code

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Wikis and Libraries

• Huddersfield University
• University of South Caroline Aiken
• Library Success A best practice
• Wikipedia ?
• Wikibooks
• Wikiversity
• Wikijunior

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Software

• Blogs
• WordPress (Edublogs, WordPress)
• Elgg (ElggSpaces, Portsmouth)
• Wiki
• Wikispaces (Westwood)
• pbwiki
• MediaWiki (Software)

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