Week 3: Wikis

As a recent graduate of an MLIS program, I made several wikis as part of my coursework.  I also created a wiki for new incoming students to the Rutgers MLIS program.  The wiki incorporates delicious bookmarks to help new students navigate their way through important tasks, like getting their ids, parking, and finding out where food can be found on campus!  Sadly, even though my RUasis&t (Rutgers University chapter, American Society for Information Science & Technology) wiki is wide open for editing, I am primarily the person who does the editing.  As you can see, I don't really have time for this any more.  The editing I do know is mainly deleting spam additions to the sidebar (a danger of a wiki that doesn't require user approval by an admin).  I thought a wiki would be great because students could add/change information as they went along.  That hasn't really happened.

Now that you know about my outdated wiki, I'll show it to you anyway...Please note one of the coolest features of pbwiki (or pbworks) is that I embedded a button on the website that goes right to the wiki.  Super easy for people to get to, and who can resist pushing a shiny website button?  Also the "helpful links" link on the sidebar shows how I used delicious in conjunction with this wiki.  (That's right, I'm sneaking a little week 2 in here).  I'm a little depressed to discover that a few of my favorite links (Hot Library Smut among them) appear to be broken.

For a wiki about books that I love to spend time with, check out Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Wiki!

Week 3: I Missed You! (oops)

Don't worry, there will be some catch-up posts, because I have a lot to say.  Week 3 was busy for me because I competed in (and finished) my very first triathlon!!  I'm a tribrarian!  I did the NJ State Sprint Distance triathlon, which is a 500 meter swim, 11.5 mile bike, and 5k run.  I finished in 1:38:54 and my goal was 1:45 so I'm pretty pumped up.  I'm off to work on Week 4.  Stay tuned...