The title suggests it all...
Last Friday when I left work, the Wiki was supposed to be installed and ready to run by Monday morning..what do you think, the good ole government stereotype survives, it was not done!
Sooooo...we had to resort to plan B..thank God I was there...I had contacted a group which had a Wiki, that was up and running and they allowed us to use their space and populate it.
So I spent all afternoon (because the morning was spent preparing a strategy and meeting for plan B..) working on a Wiki..and it can be challenging, but I am glad I took the Web Design course and that I understand a bit how coding works, cause making changes within the page (not referring to text, but adding frames, etc) can be quite cumbersome, but possible with trial and error.
Now if any fellow librarians are reading this...I want your input!Do you think that doing such things as Wiki's, administering content, doing content management, building web pages, etc fits within the professional boundaries of a Librarian, or should it be left to IT, or other technical services people? I had a discussion as I was leaving work with the Reference Librarian and she was complaining and trying to convince me that it shouldn't be a Librarian's position or considered "professional" work, and I totally disagreed, cause in today's society, and with the advances in technology, librarians should be open to doing more things, and accepting that their roles are changing.
Well my rant was long enough! Let me know what you think.
Cheers all,
Jer l'Acadien
