librarian.net » citesandinsights http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Shiny Toys or Useful Tools? Wikis and Blogs http://www.librarian.net/stax/2678/shiny-toys-or-useful-tools-wikis-and-blogs/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/2678/shiny-toys-or-useful-tools-wikis-and-blogs/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:08:18 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/?p=2678 Walt Crawford’s new version of Cites & Insights contains the freestanding article version (pdf) of the talk he gave at the OLA Superconference that I thought was so useful. Lots of good charts and graphs and stats about the world of library blogs and library bloggers. Interesting reading no matter what your familiarity is with either of these tools.
Blogs and wikis aren’t shiny new toys for libraries and librarians any more. They’ve moved from toys to tools. As with most tools, they’re not magic, they’re not right for everything or everybody, but they can be powerfully effective in many situations.

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