Wikis

I don't think I really understood that wikis existed outside of Wikipedia prior to about 2 weeks ago. People used the term, but I just assumed it all went back to that same source. How wrong I was!
Of the wikis I viewed for this exercise, I liked the Subject Index by St. Joseph County. It seemed like an excellent pool of knowledge to draw from. I love, love, loved the reader's advisory. I really like having a multitude of reader's advisory resources on my hand, since I seem to suffer from "it's on the tip of my tongue" disease when I'm put on the spot to name a book that _________. I thought the Bull Run Library's use of a wiki as what seemed to be a homepage was an interesting idea.
I think really one of the best uses of wikis in a public library setting is a programming wiki. It would be something that any of the staff members hosting a program could add information to, and it would simply be that same staff member's responsibility to take care of that information. I've also seen ideas about using them at the departmental level for announcements and meeting agendas to keep track of the latest developments, changes, and other valuable information the staff needs to know. It might be easier for some people than having to refer to JPL Neighborhood for all questions, but the neighborhood is nice and thorough...and official. Dratted Web 2.0 and it's reliability weakness! In a smaller library system, I think the wiki would be a place to get organzied.