Wiki Wiki!

I'm a fan of wikipedia & I think wikis are good for creating collaborative informational sites on the internet or for collaborative projects...but I do still have some questions. I went to the SJCPL Subject Guides and looked at their Gardening guide. I can see library staff working cooperatively to create this subject guide wiki, but for some sections of the wiki it seemed that there were better ways (less labor intensive) to do it. For example: Someone has to enter the information and maintain/keep it up to date. Also, for items like "New Gardening Books on Our Shelves", wouldn't it be easier to get that information via an RSS feed that is somehow linked to the catalog rather than to manually input the titles?

I also looked at the book review wiki - this looks like a much more friendly way to allow patrons to post book reviews than using the Evanced software. I find myself thinking a wiki (or a blog) could also work as a great forum for an online book discussion group.

Finally, I looked at the "Blogging Libraries Wiki". Sadly, I'd say that the Richmond Public library blog is an example of what not to do... It hasn't been posted on since November of 2008, and never received a single comment on any of their postings. I'm sure that was frutstrating for them!

I've sent a request to edit or add an entry on the CHPL Learning "sandbox", so I'll try that once permission comes through. :)