Wikis

Just had a look at Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. See lots of potential there, if more people took time to contribute. Checked out adult programming and a fair chunk of the examples were from one little library in the States. Interesting ideas, but still limited in terms of breadth. I can see the value of a wiki as part of groupwork in a class or possibly as a platform for group projects either at work or at school. I like the leveling aspect and democratic nature of wikis, but they seem to be in a kind of no man's land in terms of official legitimacy. Still, if you're trying to find out about some obscure topic that formerly wouldn't be accessible from a distance (say, about a town mayor), it's very handy to be able to plug into this information.