Week #5 Wikis

I found it fascinating that the Learning 2.0 Discover section gave us so many United States wikis; are we so far behind in Australia? I found the most interesting was BookLovers at the Princeton Public Libary, it has appeal for me in our Library but I don't feel ready to offer to set it up just yet :) I am still too new at these to offer a suggestion as to what types of applications within libraries might work well with a wiki, I find the wiki I most use is inter-library loans Weekly Digest which I try to find my way around each week with increasing success.

RSS feeds

RSS feeds has been easier than I expected to work with. I can see uses for this when I select sites which will be used regularly for my work in that it will be convenient to have the last news come to me rather than me going looking at all my favourite sites. I selected the powerhouse museum photo of the day, ABS, publishers weekly, NYT>books, USATODAY.com.books for my five sites. I can see that in time I will subscribe to other sites which will be more useful to my work , such as sites which relate directly to my duties. As I go onto sites now, I will be looking for the RSS feed option.