wikis

I edited some typos in a wiki about the town I live and work in. Added some capital letters where needed. I found the Montana history wiki very interesting. There are only 9 disasters listed for Montana and in comparison to some of the American disasters that have made the news in the last couple of years they seem not quite on the same monumental scale, although I'm sure bad enough for the people involved. I enjoyed reading about things such as the 1st automobile in Butte, the first electric light and the cost of the first typewriter ($235 in 1885).
The book lovers wiki was most interesting and a good resource for reading book reviews - I've already discovered a couple of books I'd like to read. The Library Success wiki was a source of some great ideas for Adult Programming - and I especially liked the idea for the Cookie Swap/Tasting with a prize of a $20 gift voucher from a local bakery for the winner of best cookie (the winner of the best choc chip cookie's secret ingredient was bourbon!!). Other ideas were an altered book workshop (something to do with all those leftover unsold book fair books!), selling your library, technology, services for specific groups and access to links for training.
I can see benefits to having a closed wiki (with passworded access for staff) to allow access to training data and standard operating instructions and policies etc. Our library has 2 separate drives on their server with all sorts of documents on but they are not accessible to branch library staff. A wiki on someone else's server would get around those access problems really well and allow acess at any time not just when in the main library.