Hi

We have a wiki here which I have populated with all our cataloguing
instructions, and more recently instructions for all the institutional
repository work we are doing.
It's powered by wiki media http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki 
I designed it as a one stop shop for all the cataloguing related queries
people might have, and it has proved invaluable for our instructions
being used daily by most of my team.  I've just checked and we currently
have 112 pages wiki pages tagged as Cataloguing pages, each one
containing instructions on how to catalogue, or how to deal with e-book
records from different vendors, LSE Cutter tables (different to LC) etc.
I can't send a link to it as it is password protected, but if anyone's
keen to know what we cover, I can copy a list of the page titles to you.

Helen

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Fripp
Sent: 29 March 2012 11:42
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Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Setting up a Wiki advice?

Hi,

my colleagues are in the process of setting up a cataloguing wiki here
at University of Bristol. It uses the Confluence wiki platform which is
the standard platform for the university wikis. Not free unfortunately,
but I did teach myself about setting up and using wikis with PBworks and
so I second that one.

The first few documents are going in this week and I'm looking forward
to seeing how my colleagues use it. I would like to hear how you are
getting on with yours when it's set up - it would be nice to compare
notes.

Kind regards


Dom
@Domicus

Dom Fripp
Senior Library Assistant - Cataloguing
Arts & Social Sciences Library
University of Bristol
0117 928 8007
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--On 29 March 2012 11:13 +0100 Librarian
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wrote:

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>
> 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 printed sheet which I hand out (which then gets lost, out of date, 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...)
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Dom Fripp
Senior Library Assistant - Cataloguing
Arts & Social Sciences Library
University of Bristol
0117 928 8007
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