wiki

Wiki's are pretty cool. We (mostly Matt Mallard) documented the development of the IM system on a Wiki. I have used that quite a bit. Not sure anyone else has used it. I would like to have a Reference Wiki or Library FAQ that everyone in the library can contribute to. Stuff like - where is a FAX machine? or how do i change my password? would be useful to have documented.

Overall wikis have been positive. At least the most popular site on the Internet has some peer-review even if it is in a very crude sense. If we are, indeed (i love to needlessly use the word indeed), teaching our students to be critical of the information they encounter and to understand the socio-political context in which it was created, then we have nothing to fear. If we are not teaching them that, then perhaps it is our (higher education) fault if they blindly accept what they read.