Sent to us by Suzanne Aurilio:

“In May 2006, the University of Washington Libraries Digital Initiatives unit began a project to integrate the UW Libraries Digital Collections into the information workflow of our students by inserting links into the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.”  Read More about it:  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/lally/05lally.html

–Pam

Sent to us by Sara Baird:

http://www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=47620

–Pam

From Linda Salem:

I had Wikalong installed to use with Firefox on the workstation in my
office. http://www.wikalong.org/

They call themselves a “wiki-margin for the Internet.” It is cool. Next to
any page, in the margin, I can type in the content I want. Then, others can
come and edit that content just like with any wiki if they are using
wikalong with Firefox of course. Anyone else who uses wikalong with Firefox
will see the margin comment I have made next to the page and can edit and
change it to improve the comment. All the education librarians, for
example, could begin putting together instructional information in the
margins next to the ERIC database.

–Pam

Sent to us by Jim Julius in ITS:

This is the best thing I’ve seen regarding the whens, whys, and hows of using wikipedia as a source: http://kairosnews.org/developing-a-wikipedia-research-policy

–Pam

A recent listserv discussion asked librarians if and how they’re using IM. Here are some responses:

“we are planning on experimenting with IM this summer and make it available this fall for students and faculty. I have already downloaded GoogleTalk and use it on my office computer. I have used MSN Messenger and AOL Messenger in the past. We plan to train all reference desk personel to use it and it will only be available on the reference desk. This is as per my conversation with the Library Director and also our on-going marketing plans for the Library. Meanwhile, I would like to know if anyone has experience with Trilliam as an agregator for IMs. I believe you can pick up any IM from any provider with this small software.” –Evergreen Valley College Library

In regards to Trillian, I use this exclusively for my IM work. In fact, with the paid version I can also use it for my on-campus Novell IM contacts. You can read how students contact me for IM at http://library.sbcc.edu/247reference.html. –Santa Barbara City College

–Pam