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Web Address: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6438167.html

Description: This article addresses the issue of developing a library wiki. It is important that before developing the library wiki to decide ahead of time if one wants to participate in a free wiki hosting site, pay a subscription cost to a provider to host the wiki, or set up the wiki oneself using one's own server. For many librarians, the ease of using a free hosting site has more advantages.

Application: Wikis can be used as a collaborative tool between the librarian and the trachers in an online environment "( which in Hawaiian means 'quick and very fast')" provides users with a tool that can be easily accessed, edited and updated. As librarians, we can create collaborative 2.0 school library environments. Wikis provide an opportunity for students, teachers, parents, administrators and community members to actively create new information for others.

Wikis can be used by school librarians to (1) provide students with reference material: (2) teach about "authority" in web and reference materials; (3) compare and contrast Wikipedia with other information, sources and (4) help students understand how reference materials are created.

Brenda Lacharite