Wikis are great. I use Wikipedia all the time, with a healthy dose of skepticism, of course. In college my study group spent a year reading The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (supposedly the world's first novel, and definitely the world's longest and most difficult to understand novel!), and we made a wiki to keep track of the characters and plot elements. It was so incredibly useful.
At ML a teen customer was having trouble understanding the more complicated bits of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows after it first came out, and we had fun going through The Harry Potter Wiki for the answers.
At ML a teen customer was having trouble understanding the more complicated bits of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows after it first came out, and we had fun going through The Harry Potter Wiki for the answers.
As for library-related wikis, the possibilities seem literally endless. A storytime wiki might be useful-- new books, songs, suggestions, etc. Princeton's BookLovers Wiki is a great example of a review wiki, which could be fun (obviously I like reviewing books; see the staff blog).
Plus it's just fun to say. Wiki. Wiki wiki wiki. :)
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