Who knew we already have a wiki?

Who knew that our library already has a wiki? Well, guess what? The Greater Phoenix Digital Library team has a wiki and we have access to it as staff members of the library.

Don't let the name "wiki" scare you. It's just a regular web page so you can click on the link and go straight to it. The unusual thing about wikis is that they are collaborative web pages. That means that any of the staff members who are contact persons in the Greater Phoenix Digital Library teams can contribute to the wiki and share information. That's especially great for teams of people working on projects, like our Ebook team is in this project.

For example our PPL ebook team has written some great answers to Frequently Asked Questions with Standard Responses about Ebooks. They are saved on the wiki so that every library in the Greater Phoenix Digital Library can access them and use them to help their patrons figure out the nuances of Ebooks.

Find out more about wikis at Wikipedia , the biggest and oldest wiki of them all.

Thanks to Roseline Williams for sharing info about the GPDL wiki. You are really cutting edge Roseline, thanks for leading the way!

What is Library 2.0?

Our first step in this journey will be to define what it is that we are talking about when we say Library 2.0.

Library 2.0 is variously defined as a set of social networking tools that enable a library to take full advantage of current technology to serve patrons. These tools include RSS feeds, Blogs, tagging, podcasts, and a range of other technologies.

Library 2.0 has been coined from the broader term Web 2.0 which is a term relating to using these tools over the web as a whole. When we use the term Library 2.0, we are specifically referring to using those tools in a library or library website setting. See wikiipedia for a pretty good definition of both terms, Library 2.0 and Web 2.0.