[Web4lib] Social software for collaborative collection development?

[Ms Norma Jean Hewlett]

I second Brian's recommendation for a wiki.

I work with a group of regional campus librarians. We've used a 
private wiki from pbwiki to coordinate our book purchases for the past 
two years. It works very well, much better than our old method of 
passing spreadsheets around as email attachments.

You could probably do this with a free private pbwiki. If you want 
better access controls, their Silver level is about $100 per year for 
educational wikis. We use a Platinum level wiki, but that's because we 
are very concerned with security issues.

Jean Hewlett
Regional Librarian, North Bay Campus
University of San Francisco

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:22 am
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Social software for collaborative collection
	development?
To: Cab Vinton <bibliwho at gmail.com>
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org

> I would use a wiki for your discussion.
> 
> For books (I am not sure on DVDs), one idea I had was to create a 
fake
> librarything.com account and add all the items. It links to all the
> external sites with additional information. You can have a single 
link
> in your wiki but the LibraryThing link will lead to others.
> 
> I have know libraries that have used LibraryThing as a wish list for
> patrons to review and provide feedback.
> 
> Brian Gray
> mindspiral at gmail.com
> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Cab Vinton <bibliwho at gmail.com> 
> wrote:> Publibbers struck out on this one ...
> >
> >  Our local cooperative has a collection of DVD's that rotates 
> between the
> >  12-15 member libraries & it's time to purchase some new titles.
> >
> >  A selection committee of three (from different libraries) will 
> make the
> >  initial choices & then share them with the entire group.
> >
> >  Wondering if anyone has used any of the newer online 
> collaboration tools to
> >  facilitate a process like this.
> >
> >  I've thought of using SurveyMonkey or maybe an online 
> spreadsheet, to give
> >  individuals a chance to rate the titles & share their thoughts. 
> It would
> >  also be nice to be able to include links to online reviews on 
> Amazon or
> >  wherever so folks could learn a bit more about the titles.
> >
> >  Grateful for any suggestions.
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >
> >  Cab Vinton
> >  Sanbornton Public Library
> >  603-286-8288
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> 
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> Brian Gray
> mindspiral at gmail.com
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