IL04: Wither wiki

So Richard Akerman has followed-up on his own idea at the behest of Jane Dysart and created a Post Conference Wiki. I even see that Steven Cohen has already posted a comment and Jane’s listed her blog. I’m thinking about it. But, here is comes, what’s the point?

I’m not against Wikis. I talk about and promote them in my Intro to Knowledge Technologies class at DU. Why do I think librarians aren’t big on them (other than the spam and destruction issues)? I’m trying to figure out how libraries can use a wiki in their mission to provide people with information. In other words, how would a wiki help a library get information to its users? At this point I think that librarians aren’t into wikis because there’s no solid practical application. (Internally maybe, but not for providing service to our patrons.) If someone can give me that practical application maybe librarians will start paying more attention to the technology.