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A Wiki for Presidential Libaries
Here is a very nice resource that makes use of modern technology (a collaborative wiki) to help users of Presidential Libraries.
The American Historical Association has a wiki (Archives Wiki) intended to be a clearinghouse of information about archival resources throughout the world. It has a page for each presidential library. (See list here.)
Although there is not a lot there yet, this is a place where historians can add comments, hints, problems, suggestions about using the resources at the Presidential libraries.
Wikis in Gov’t
[cross-posted from legalresearchplus.com]
by Paul
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting “Information Age” article on its opinion page. L. Gordon Crovitz reports on a research project by Don Tapscott called “Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government & Democracy.” “The goal is to use Web-based collaboration to ‘reinvent government’.” The WSJ piece reports that “[t]he federal government has launched several wikis . . . Intellipedia lets 37,000 officials at the CIA, FBI, NSA and other . . . agencies share information and even rate one enough for accuracy . . . Diplopedia lets State Department staff share information. . . . “
Help Build A World Health Resource
On April 9, 2008, Eamon Duffy posted the following announcement to govdoc-l that we at FGI felt was deserving of broader coverage:
The McGill Library Global Health Resource Wiki
wikisites.mcgill.ca/GlobalHealthGuide
The McGill Library has created a Global Health Resource Guide to promote collaboration and to share and organize knowledge about resources within the McGill community and beyond.
This resource guide was created as a wiki using MediaWiki software so that as many people as possible would be encouraged to both use the guide and add resources to it. All members of the McGill community – students, faculty, clinicians, researchers and staff – can add resources to the guide by logging in with their McGill user ID. Anyone in the international community with an interest in global health is welcome to use the guide for finding global health information and resources. If you are from an academic community outside of McGill, we encourage you to participate and contribute to the wiki. Contact us for a user ID if you would like to contribute resources or information to the guide.
To obtain more information, to comment or pass on suggestions for content, or to request a User ID to add resources and content, please contact one of these McGill librarians:
Eamon Duffy Government Information Service
Louisa Piatti Nahum Gelber Law Library
Jim Henderson Life Sciences Library
Deborah Meert Macdonald Campus Library
====================Contact information for the above librarians can be found at http://wikisites.mcgill.ca/GlobalHealthGuide/index.php/McGill_Library_Global_Health_Resource_Guide:Contact_us
If you’re affiliated with an academic community or library and have some time to assist building this resource, we encourage you to help. It is one more way the the librarian community can show how it adds value to information.
Race and Law Wiki at Syracuse
The H. Douglas Barclay Law Library at the Syracuse University College of Law has created a Race and Law Research Wiki that it hopes will be a valuable inter-disciplinary resource for researchers. The topical organization is based on a Race and Law course syllabus and textbook. For each topic, researchers will currently find bibliographies and research guides; web resources and databases; and legislative and administrative material. The wiki also includes sections on statistics, how to find books and articles, and suggestions for relevant news sources and blogs. Emphasis in all categories is on electronic resources; however, some references to print sources have also been included. Anyone interested in contributing to the wiki can contact the librarian in charge here.
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