This is an encyclopedic compendium of articles about every aspect of Thomas Jefferson world: people, places, objects, events, activities, and ideas. Built on MediaWiki, only individuals authorized with edit privileges may create or change the content. Many information resources are linked to the articles, connecting to the Thomas Jefferson Portal research database and the Thomas Jefferson Digital Library. Additional links are provided to external web sites, allowing individuals to find individual letters, maps, or documents that exist in the digital Internet realm. Launched in July 2007, and now with 400 content articles, plans are in place to expand the TJ Wiki by at least ten fold.

This website focuses on the management and research of primary source materials.
Based on Library 2.0 technologies, Archivopedia offers many services helpful to librarians and those wishing to learn more about library and archival research.

The wiki encyclopedia is open for anyone to edit and contains information relevant to archivists, librarians, public historians, and museum professionals. MLIS students will also find the study guide of terminology and biographical entries helpful. For individuals seeking a job, internship, or practicum experience, the wiki offers a free service to post a link to a resume or ePortfolio. For administrators and directors, there are links to funding sources like library grants and foundations that cater to library-related projects such as digitization, preservation, and collections description.

Link to the wiki to find out more: http://archivopedia.com/wiki/

In addition to the wiki, the site offers a search engine specially customized to find primary source materials around the world by keyword. This feature takes advantage of open source / open access initiatives and is designed to promote repository collections containing original materials by enabling researchers the opportunity to find and link to collections and specific items held at various repositories that might interest them in a single search. Try a sample search like “George Washington” in the search engine:
http://www.google.com/cse?oe=utf8&ie=utf8&source=uds&start=0&cx=01516329....

Link to the search engine: http://archivopedia.com/_mgxroot/page_10753.html

A new Online Learning Center was recently introduced. Designed for library, archival, and history educators at all levels in mind, the Online Learning Center focuses on:

* How to use primary sources in teaching
* Building instructional design modules
* Learning object database
* On-demand tutorials
* Web 2.0 integration and programming tips
* Web-deliverable interactive, self-paced 24/7 lessons

Members can deposit a learning module for their students or library patrons.

Link to the Virtual Campus page: http://archivopedia.com/_mgxroot/page_10754.html

Primary Sources, the site's news publication, pulls the latest stories from news headlines relevant to archivists, librarians, records managers, public historians, and museum professionals. Readers can vote on issues in the news though online polling with instant results.

Link to the News page: http://archivopedia.com/_mgxroot/page_10743.html

The site is currently seeking beta version users and contributors to explore and comment on development issues.

Sincerely,
The Archivopedia Development Team

TeenLibWiki is a collaborative encyclopedia for everything related to Teen Librarianship. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create a comprehensive database for librarians serving teens!

EDUCAUSE maintains a library of content of interest to those interested in leveraging information technology in higher education. In addition to the content cataloged by a professional librarian, the site also integrates topical blogs, wikis and podcasts as well as content from a number of third party sources. The site also features an number of options for faceted navigation.

Some key examples include:
http://connect.educause.edu/term_view/Digital+Libraries
http://connect.educause.edu/term_view/Digital+Preservation
http://connect.educause.edu/term_view/net+neutrality
http://connect.educause.edu/search/results?query=%22internet+archive%22

Billed as a "reference tool for members of the Prairie Area Library System", this is a good example of a wiki being used as an "internal" document.

While many of the pages still need to be fleshed out, there are useful guides to databases and newspapers by location. This can sure come in handy.

There's also a Reference Answer File which leads with the question, "Where do babies come from?" This also contains links to "Answer Files" from other sources.

Excellent example of what you can do with a Wiki -- in this case, for an "unconference" appropriately enough being organized by Stephen Francoeur in NYC for Tues. Aug. 14.

People are signing themselves up (over 125 at this point) as well as suggesting discussion topics, and of course, anyone can edit any of the pages. This is a good demonstration of the strengths of this technology -- particularly as a vehicle to channel people's interests and enthusiasm in a collaborative online environment.

This is a good example of a Subject Guide, in this case for Business, in the format of a Wiki. There are nice touches like the Meebo box and "Featured" articles on the home page. The author, Chad Boeninger calls it an "experiment with an alternative form of delivery of library information".

It's interesting that he's also enabled the "editing" feature so that others, potentially at least, can add to the site.

This is one of the most extensive and best-kept Library-Wiki's I've seen -- in this case from the IT Department of UCONN Libraries.

All you have to do is go to their "ITS Desk Main Page" to see what kind of job they've done. There's everything listed here from Work Schedules during Finals to information on "Out of Order Signs".

My only criticism -- and this I see all the time on Wikis -- is the weakness of the Main Page: it's overly heavy on instructions and overly weak on navigation aids to the rest of the site. (And yeah, I know there's the Left Navigation but since when in web design did we think this was enough -- for the Main Page?)

That said, this is a wonderful example of how to organize the often complicated documentation of a Library Department.

Resource for the library community to share ways for getting our jobs done, as well as a a pathfinder to the rich resources ALA website, http://www.ala.org

The purpose of this project is to serve as the home for information originally posted by Bill Drew (the original editor of this page) on the Wireless Librarian website. It is a work in progress and will take time. Please feel free to update information and to add your own resources. One hope is that individual libraries will provide links to stories about their efforts and also links to any documentation they created.