Introduction to Wikis

• Wiki from Wikipedia
• Wiki Farms Wikipedia entry about places that will host your wiki. See also the entry on List of Wiki Farms
• Brain, Marshall. How Wikis Work from How Stuff Works
• Farkas, Meredith. Wikis in Action. This blog entry summarizes and comments on a presentation made at the 2006 Computers in Libraries conference. A must read for any library thinking about how they could use wikis.
• Martindale, Trey and David Wiley. Blogs, Wikis, and RSS for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development (presentation made at the 2005 conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology).

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Wikis for Librarians

Institutional Wikis

• ACRL Distance Learning Section Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services Set up to assist members of the Distance Learning Section of ACRL revise the Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services
• Albany County Public Library (NY) Allbystaff
• ALSC ALSC Wiki Set up by the ALA's Association for Library Service to Children.
• Antioch New England Graduate School Training Manual
• Baruch College Reference Handbook password protected
• Corinthian Colleges (a for-profit system of colleges)
  • Blair College Blair College Library and Resource Center
  • Florida Metropolitan University CCI Librarians
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Science and Engineering Libraries B-Team
• Mesquite Independent School District (TX) libadvisoryWiki Forum for school librarians whose school district is revising a mission statement.
• New England Music Library Association NEMLA Directory of Music Libraries
• University of Connecticut UCONN Libraries Staff Wiki
• University of Minnesota Staff Home Page
• University of Texas UT Reference Wiki
• Vanderbilt University LITS Home Page

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Wikis Devoted to LIS Topics

• ACRL Distance Learning Section Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services Set up to assist members of the Distance Learning Section of ACRL revise the Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services
• Bibliopedia Covers a wide range of LIS topics in French.
• DigiWik All about digitization issues.
• DUG Wiki For the Dynix Users Group (UK).
• Futurlib Launched by Karen Coyle to discuss the next generation catalog.
• IGeLU Wiki for the International Group of Ex Libris Users
• infosciences To coordinate the Carnival of Infosciences.
• libland Sponsored by the ALA. Resources for library school students and new librarians.
• Library 2.0 Wiki
• Library Instruction Wiki Launched by librarians from Oregon. Includes handouts, outlines, presentations, and more.
• Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
• LIS Wiki
• NextGenlib For soon-to-be librarians, new librarians, and newish librarians.
• Pay \"IT\" Forward For sharing of library IT solutions.
• teacherlibrarianwiki For school librarians.
• WebJunction

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Conference Wikis (official and unofficial)

• ALA Chicago 2005 An unofficial guide to Chicago and reports on presentations from the 2005 ALA meeting.\
• ALA New Orleans 2006 ALA has decided to make this the official guide to the 2006 ALA conference in New Orleans. See Meredith Farkas' March 10, 2006, blog posting about how she came to be responsible for setting this wiki up on the ALA's behalf.
• ALA Midwinter Seattle 2007
• ASIST 2005 Annual Meeting Wiki
• ASIST 2006 Annual Meeting Wiki
• Computers in Libraries 2006 An unofficial guide to Washington, DC, and the 2006 CIL conference.
• LAT Report from Computers in Libraries 2006 Report by librarians from
• Internet Librarian 2005
• Internet Librarian 2006
• KMWorld and Intranets 2005 Conference
• Music Library Association 2006

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Conference Presentations as Wikis

• Advanced Weblogs: Applications, Technology, Cases A presentation by Steven Cohen and Jenny Levine at Internet Librarian 2005.
• Pival Monterey Created by Paul Pival for his presentation at Internet Librarian 2005.
• The RSS and Java Cookbook Presentation by Paul Pival and Meredith Farkas at Internet Librarian 2006.
• RSS and Blogs in Libraries Created by Emily Alling, a librarian at UMass Amherst, for a presentation to her colleagues.

Individual Librarian Wikis

• Steven M. Cohen Wiki Personal wiki maintained by Steven Cohen, noted blogger for Library Stuff.

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Wikis for Library Users

Wikis as Library Web Sites

• Plinkit for Oregon's Public Libraries Oregon libraries are testing out a customized version of Plone that will allow them to easily make library web sites.
• University of South Carolina, Aiken USC Aiken Gregg-Graniteville Library

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Reference and Instruction Wikis

• Butler University Butler WikiRef
• Ohio University Biz Wiki
• Ohio University Lit Wiki
• University of Calgary University of Calgary Wiki There's just one page devoted to the library in this campus-wide wiki...it's a start.
• University of Huddersfield Electronic Sources Wiki
• University of Winnipeg What Would Bat Girl Do Password protected.

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Further Reading

• Farkas, Meredith. Why I Wasn't at Library Camp East. A Sept. 28, 2006, blog post by Meredith Farkas detailing her presentation to ALA staff about wikis. Includes link to PPT slides.
• Fichter, Darlene. Wikis in Libraries: Sites, Articles and Links
• Harrell, Amy. \"Wiki Works: Using Wikis In Libraries.\" A presentation made at a NELINET meeting, November 4, 2005.
• Mattison, David. \"Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool.\" Searcher (April 2003).
• Tonkin, Emma. \"Making the Case for a Wiki.\" Ariadne (July 2005).

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