WELCOME TO THE NEW PUBSIG WIKI
Current Topic - the Wiki itself
This wiki was created by a member to get the Wiki underway quickly, without going through all the processes detailed in the LIANZA proposal for a wiki.
What do you think about the wiki idea?
Post your thoughts here, by clicking on the “Edit Page” link at the top right.
Use the wiki to post your thoughts, or to share ideas and knowledge for the PUBSIG audience. See the Wiki Help section link at the bottom right of this page on how to start - it’s really easy.
The LIANZA proposal for the wiki is as follows :-
PUB-SIG Committee would like to recommend to the membership the development of a WIKI to be housed via
www.lianza.org.nz
1. What would this be?
The aim would be “an ideas suite” of considerations for public librarians when reviewing their practices and policies. This would be a selection of current information for members to assist them with tactical and operational issues concerning all aspects of public library
management.
2. The suggested style / format is
- an outline of key issues. These are what must be right, as minimum professional practice guidelines.
- illustrative samples and examples via links. These may also become composite templates. These would be the examples which most fully represent the checklist.
- checklist of considerations or factors which may typically comprise the activity
3. The suggested sections are:
Each of those may have very significant sections e.g. Customers may
include Teens (i.e. individual niches) as well as key customer activities
such as Membership.
4. A wiki is suggested as the appropriate solution to develop a national reference resource which has distributed national
contribution “authorship”. It is anticipated that content would be moderated by a group so that the integrity of the resource was maintained. E.g. the scope and style were being consistent. When page changes were made, an email to the section owner would be triggered.
It would not:
- be a compilation of who does what. This would be very unwieldy, and require too much effort to keep up to date and hence would quickly lose usefulness. However what libraries do may be encapsulated within the checklist as possible considerations.
- duplicate the Standards. This is likely to contain more discussion type information for librarians to take account of, together with links to examples. However the content needs to be in step with and build on the Standards.
- Be one “best practice solution”. This can only be determined in context. However, the aim is to guide and promote best practice in highlighting issues for consideration by individual libraries and librarians.
- replace the forum and communication function of the list-serv.
- be a highly interactive 2.0 social networking tool
5. The Committee notes that
Pm Wiki (
http://www.pmwiki.org/) is free, is already used via the LIANZA site via the ITSIG pages and contains the main desired features. PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an Edit link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website. One does not need to know or use any HTML or CSS. Editing would need to be password protected to guard against SPAM but the password easily accessible (e.g. presented on the page as a graphic)
6. It is anticipated that this resource will continue as a professional PUB-SIG initiative irrespective of any change in the structure as a result of the current reviews.
7. It will be assumed that the development costs e.g. time taken to develop pages, or disbursements such as toll calls are gifted by individuals, or teams’ parent organizations.
SUGGESTED PROCESS
1. The PUB SIG Committee consults on this concept proposal. Please send feedback to Joanne Horner (Joanne.horner@wcc.govt.nz) by 10th March 2008. This will result in a Feedback report.
2.The PUB SIG Committee adopts a version of it. (incorporating feedback)
3.The PUB SIG committee assembles an interim Wiki development committee from interested and appropriate members. The role of this committee would be to
- Set a project timetable and report on it to the PUB SIG Committee
- Select and Install the software, and set up on the site
- Write selected pages (and co-opt further page writers) so that on day 1 there is a partial resource and enough content available to guide users in the structure and style etc.
- Develop the Wiki guidelines and help text including adding or changing content and the moderation process.
4. Site goes live and members may edit, review or create new pages to strengthen and fully populate the resource on an ongoing basis.
5. Once the site was live, the interim development Committee would disband and/or reform to be a Wiki Management committee where there would be one “manager” per high-level section.
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