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Bull Run Library:

I really liked this library's use of a wiki both in terms of style and in terms of how and why they were using a wiki. It was very up to date and clean I think this would be a very good model for most libraries.

Wow week six already, half way there ish by my estimate. I think it's finally cooled down enough that I can write without fear of my computer exploding and or dying some heat related death...

One of my main concerns when considering the different social software we've been discussing is the usefulness of the particular software - be it a wiki, blog, or RSS feed - for the particular library. Each tool so far has demonstrated great potential when used in the right place at the right time. For me, wikis seem to have a different kind of potential in their ability to manage knowledge for a group of people. Interactivity, gathering multiple viewpoints, and the subsequent potential for great ideas and documents are inherent in generating wikis and these are all incentives to utilizing wikis in libraries.