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Datum: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:13:48 +0100
Von: Librarian <[log in to unmask]>
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Betreff: [CIG-E-FORUM] Setting up a Wiki advice?This is a very timely discussion! I’m just in the process of creating cataloguing rules for myself and my volunteers. I normally would do a printed sheet which I hand out (which then gets lost, out of date, gets scribbled on hints) but this time it is running to around 12 pages. Now my low-tech solution was to put these in ring binders next to each PC and a digital copy on the desktop, but would a Wiki be better? My off-site cataloguing volunteers could use it to ask me questions I suppose? And things people note down would be shared by everyone (and seen by me to check their interpretation is right!)
So where would I start setting up a (free) wiki? Any recommended providers?
(If you want some background, I am a solo librarian with approx 70 volunteers and approx 65,000 records. Just transferred to new open-source catalogue merged from Koha and Evergreen but now all my old records need validating and turning into proper MARC. Hence volunteers will be checking through and validating records by adding control fields etc otherwise I will be here well past retirement...)
Jennie Kelly
@mininglibrarian
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