We celebrated the passing of our wiki’s first anniversary by making it available to all Halifax Public Library staff. We call the “public” side of our wiki, CataWiki.
This has been a work in progress for over 8 months. It began to take shape in my mind when our department continually received the same questions about the catalogue. So, [...]
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March 26, 2008
Collections Access Wiki
It occurred to me that many of you may want to see what our cataloguing wiki looks like and the kind of content that we are adding. Although the “official” wiki is housed on our local intranet, my “training” wiki* is not. Please feel free to view it and navigate around.
The content and layout of [...]
December 27, 2007
Wikis and Cataloguers: Success for the First Step
Our new wiki was installed in the beginning of December. I was both nervous and excited. This is the first “big” project that could have a huge impact not only in the cataloguing department, but also throughout the rest of the library. If this pilot project works, I can write a report that recommends wikis [...]
October 15, 2007
A Wiki in our cataloguing department
You won’t find any Star Wars characters in our department, but you will soon find a Wiki.
When you enter your cataloguing department every day, you bring with you information that cannot be found in AACR2 or MARC. In addition to the many tools we use such as DDC, Bookwhere, Cutter tables, Validator, LC and so [...]
