readings for week of 11/24-25

This weeks readings were about using the Internet and Internet services to communicate with others in the profession. "Using as wiki to manage a library" discussed the wiki as a way of sharing information. The author described wiki's as a way to better share information and collaboration and using a wiki efficiently divides the work for group work. This article also give details as to how to create your own wiki. I thought that the information in this one was really good and the directions were easy to follow.

"Creating the academic library folksonomy" was in favor of social tagging was a way to remember bookmarked pages. The problem with bookmarking is that the pages are only remembered on the computer you are working with at the time. In tagging, they are remembered on the Internet site and therefore you can do your work from multiple computers.

The video was interesting but I'll admit that I did not watch the whole thing. Learning how Wikipedia was made gave me a new outlook on Internet databases.