Wikis could be useful for building subject guides for customers ... and perhaps also staff. Perhaps we could have a "useful reference sources" type wiki where we record useful websites etc that helped answer certain reference queries.
Like it said in the readings wikis are great for doing a shared project (i.e to save lots of emails between multiple people) but I don't personally see the need for it in my day to day work here.
I do like the of making a wiki available for the whole community to build it's own community database. I say, put the technology up there and let the people do it how they want. We would just be the hosts. Done properly it could be a place to go for information about all kinds of things about Whangarei and its communities. The only way to find out if it would work would be to put the technology up there and let people loose!
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I agree that a community based wiki would be great. The library should be the centre of any community. The first place of contact for information and accurate referral. So much information out there with so many points of contact....libraries could jump onto this information highway band wagon. Don't know why we haven't really.
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