Week 7, Thing 16

I have very little experience using wikis.  My only experience was for a group project in one of our first MLS grad classes.  I felt completely useless not understanding how wiki's work.  Now I know :)

Initially I wasn't sure how libraries could use wiki's for the general publics use due to the "edit" function.  I would not want my patron's editing my wiki.  However after exploring the suggested wiki's I found there is a login page for editing.  Problem solved!  Some wiki's templates were more visually appealing than others.  There are many factors to choosing the right wiki website, but the visual appeal would be important to me.

When I was hired at my current job as a children's librarian, the previous librarian created a beautiful web page for their summer reading program, a central page for patrons to get any information related to summer reading.  I struggled with the decision of how to create this web page especially not knowing HTML code.  Through weebly.com I was able to create this page, however, now I know wiki's are another possibility.