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Monday, October 29, 2007
Do It Yourself Intranet
Eleni Gogas and Donna Feddern, Escondido Public Library
Why change from Network drives to an intranet?
- No archiving, poor searching capabilities.
- Intranet improves Knowledge Management
- Allows people to get organized and stay current.
- City intranet too formal, not library oriented.
Why a wiki?
- Collaboration
- Informality
- Transparency
Picking a wiki
Needed WYSIWYG, Free (or at least affordable), better searching, web-based wiki farm, password protection, individual staff profiles, easy set-up/use/learning, blogging
Choice was jotspot. It matched all the criteria they were looking for
keyword searching of documents, rss feeds and email reminders nice.
But... jotspot has not been taking new users since they were acquired by Google. May need to migrate soon.Other possible choices - pb wiki, wetpaint (ads though), wikispot (less easy for newbies to use)
Organized wiki according to staff needs.
Built framework to encourage ideas and feedback
Important Stuff, Fun Stuff pages part of wiki oganization.
Showed it off at an all staff meeting
Trained supervisors first to help
Started with "Readers World" Sign Up Sheet - an introductory, simple way of introducing how to do editing of wiki pages
Suggestions For Others Considering This:
- Designate go-to troubleshooters
- Develop Guidelines
- Have Dept. Heads responsible
Issues and troubleshooting:
Bugs, Backups, Fear of Change, Staff Interest/Participation, TimeDonna Feddern
Examples of wiki use at Escondido - Teen Librarian Examples
Marketplace project - communication to let staff know why things are being done, encouraging feedback and ideas
Teen Book Talks page - "online filing cabinet
Teen craft Ideas shared via wiki (pdfs of projects)
Reader's Advisory Training for non-librarians that are working with teens
Room reserve tutorial
Blog as great place to brainstorm with collegues
Posting Pictures of people Who Have not Followed library rules - Security Alert blogSouthern California Fires example of how wiki could have helped their "work family"....
Labels: Donna Feddern, Eleni Gogas, IL2007, Intranets, wikis
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Other web logs with links to library issues:
- Lori Bowen Ayre's Library Technology Musings provides "Hopes, dreams, wild ideas and practical solutions for libraries."
- Marylaine Block's Neat New Stuff I Found This Week (and her Ex Libris E-Zine for librarians.)
- Tara Calishain's Research Buzz, "news about search engines, databases, and other information collections."
- Blake Carver and Steve Galbraith's LISNews.com, focuses on (as the subtitle puts it), "news for information professionals."
- Steven M. Cohen's Library Stuff, provides readers with information on the wonderful and exciting world of librarianship.
- Gary Frost's Future of the Book, looks at "preservation and persistence of the changing book."
- Michael Gartenberg (an analyst with Jupiter Research, a market research and advisory firm focused on emerging technologies and the Internet) is one of several Jupiter researchers producing an Analyst Weblog.
- Brend Hough and Liz Rea's NEKLS Technology Weblog, "50 Feet From the Cutting Edge in the Northeast Kansas Library System."
- Sarah Houghton's Librarian In Black, has "resources and discussions for the 'tech-librarians-by-default' among us..."
- Jenny Levine, the original bloggin' librarian, is back with the Shifted Librarian, working to make libraries more "portable... to serve our remote patrons."
- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (one of the Institute for the Future's research team) is producing Future Now, which looks at emerging technologies and their social implications.
- Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy's ResourceShelf has "resources and news for information professionals" (including the latest scoops on what's what with the invisible web).
- Michael Stephens' Tame the Web includes, "current technology uses in libraries, training tips and various other interests concerning library settings."
- Sandra Stewart at San Jose Public Library is producing a Library Tourguide to Blogs and Technology.
- Jessamyn West's librarian.net, keeping track of the nifty reference sites - and library references - she finds.
- Stephanie Wright's TechnoBiblio, where librarians and technogeeks speak the same language.
Not a weblog, but a very funny look at libraries:
- Unshelved - Bill Barnes' and Gene Ambaum's library comic strip (formerly known as Overdue.)
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