Wikis

 Book Lovers Wiki: developed by the Princeton Public Library

 What did you find interesting? 
What I thought was interesting with wikis,was that you could see the advantages for a library, by improving the current search system with the help of the use of hyper-links. Hyper-links are highlighted words that link clients to pages that are relevant to the highlighted link. In a library setting, wikis hyper-links could help clients by linking the author's work to similar works, linking items to genres and other types of linking used for similar situations.  

What types of applications within libraries might work well with a wiki? 
I found it interesting that the Princeton Public Library took the basic concept of the traditional library book review lay out; the title of a book, its contain and possibly something about the author. The wiki book review page allowing the client to write their thoughts on what books they have read, and adding hyper-links to relevant pages that have something to do with the book within Princeton Public Library website. This application could of been accessed to read by anyone that wasn't a library member.

I thought that it was a well set out system, but sadly after further readings I found that the library had adapted another system and had not been updated in a very long time.     

So what's in a wiki? 
The best way that I could describe what Wikis contains, is that it a like a encyclopedia; it will have information on a reliant subject to the person reading it, having links within the article to other wikis to subjects that can or can not be reliant to the original wiki.