The wiki activity brought back the memories of the big warnings we received about using wikipedia as an information source due to it unreliability. It was interesting then, to read that the German language version of Wikipedia had been found to be more accurate than their leading encyclopedia!
I realise that it is important to ensure any data be validated prior to supplying it to a customer, but it is reassuring that if people are using wikis themselves without an information professional, the data they obtain from these sources is pretty likely to be ok.
Being from a regional area, I am a huge fan of wikis like Mylee Joseph's children's services wiki, which I have used extensively. I also like the Readers Services wiki. These wikis make it easy for more remote library services to access information about new ideas and programs run by other libraries.
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