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Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher now a wiki

July 20th, 2006 by Pat Ensor

As some of you may have noticed, I have had trouble keeping the Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher current. In the process of preparing for my latest update, I found that the wiki function had become available, and the Tool Kit seemed ideal for that — um, once Bonnie Postlethwaite suggested it to me, anyway.

So here it is: Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher. The Web page won’t be taken down, at least for quite a while, because the URL is pretty widespread, and I want people to be able to find the new version. Soon, a cross link should be on the old page.

Because of the nature of wikis, this is really an experiment, and I’m kinda skeered about what’s going to happen. I want to open the Tool Kit to the expertise and contributions of others; at the same time, I want it to continue to be selective and trustworthy. Right now, it’s open, but that might end up needing to be modified. I guess at the moment, though, I’d be glad to even see anyone paying attention to it!

I hope you’ll take a look at the revised content, since I’ve added a couple of new sections, “Blog Searching” and “Podcast Searching,” and expanded “Multimedia Searching.” See what you think!

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6 Responses to “Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher now a wiki”

  1. K.G. Schneider Says:
    July 20th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    Wow–whatta wiki! Congrats!

  2. D.M. Hughes Says:
    July 21st, 2006 at 12:08 am

    Thank you for using such an interesting approach to a valuable resource. A number of topics are, also, of interest to public and secondary-level school librarians. I will pass the web site on this one!

  3. Susie Whiteford Says:
    July 21st, 2006 at 1:03 pm

    Thanks so much for putting this together. Not only am I going to bookmark this, I am going to include information about this wiki in a class that I’m teaching this fall.

  4. Mark Beatty Says:
    July 21st, 2006 at 5:58 pm

    Pat,
    Great stuff. One suggestion, or maybe I just missed something. Is there anyway to make the TOC for the tool kit as a persistant table on say the left side? That would make navigation, especially for those only reading the material and not editing, a whole bunch easier. Later…

  5. Christine Holmes Says:
    July 21st, 2006 at 7:07 pm

    I added an entry to our blog (Calif. Acad. Research Librarians IT) about your wiki.

  6. Science Library Pad Says:
    July 21st, 2006 at 10:37 pm

    Tool Kit for Expert Web Search goes wiki…

    It has the scope of listing the best tools for searching the Web from the perspective of an academic librarian.http://wikis.ala.org/LITALibrary2.0/index.php/Tool_Kit_for_the_Expert_Web_Searcher yeah, you read that right, wikis.ala.org What I’d be inte…

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