Today, Wikis.

A Wiki is essentially an online database of linked webpages, using software that allows people to view and edit individual pages via their web-browsers. The software that powers the pages is called Wiki, thus the name.

The actual word "wiki" is Hawaiian for "fast"; the creator of wiki-technology, Ward Cunningham, talks about the etymology of the term.

It took me a while to find a wiki relating to Libraries or Library tech that really interested me, most of the good ones had alread been snaffled.

I'm going to look at the 21st Century School Library wiki, which I'm finding hard to form a proper citation of, mainly becuase the wiki itself is quite sparse.

http://21cschoollibrary.wikispaces.com/

This wiki seems to have been created by someone named Fran Huges, for whom I can find only a Flickr page. As I mentioned before, the wiki is quite small and seems to consist primarily of links to other places and sources of information, with a small number of videos scattered throughout. Just by looking I can see that most of the information linked to is either for, or from sources within Australian Schools, or topically relavant.

The photos section of the site was one of the more filled out sections and seemed to me to be the most interesting, as it contained links directing me to many different Flickr photostreams, most for individual Libraries and one to a series of pictures showing the before and after of a refurbished Library.

I discovered as I was searching, that this wiki is listed under the teacher resources on the EDNA site, which rather makes it more of a Teacher's resource, instead of a Library resource. Despite that, the wiki seems to have promise. It has compiled quite a few resource links on various topics associated with making a modern school Library.