The subject guides in the St. Joseph County PL system are interesting and innovative. I explored the travel, craft, and tax guides for this assignment. I liked how they provide links to their online catalog and local stores. And I found a book I wanted to check out from their list, so their guides must serve their local customers well too. The tax guide had some useful info; even more helpful would have been lists of places where people can get (free) tax help, if they offer such services in their area. (Now of course I realize that it's not tax season now, so perhaps that's why there aren't any of these listings.)
I also looked at the ALA annual meeting wiki and read some of the entries listed there. The ground rules for the ALA wiki seem reasonable: No content unrelated to Annual Conference and Washington DC, no defamatory remarks, no ads or spam, no politics, etc. Some kind of moderator must be necessary to enforce these rules, and it makes sense to establish some similar rules, especially for a wiki with a large membership such as ALA.
I could see using wikis to create subject guides, or for book discussion groups. It might also be useful to try the next time I'm a participant in a meeting with more than two or three people. This was a good learning opportunity, and I hope to apply it soon.
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