I have chosen the James Earl Carter Library at Georgia Southwestern State University as my library for creating a wiki. The Library is committed to supporting the University's mission to cultivate excellence in learning and teaching that encourages intellectual, personal, and social growth for students, faculty, staff, and the community. In keeping with this mission, the Library provides convenient and effective access to quality library services and collections and information in a variety of formats.
Characteristics of the James Earl Carter Library:
1. Academic library that serves over 3,000 students at Georgia Southwestern State University
2. Currently employs 3 librarians, 5 staff members, 1 vacant librarian position and about 10 student assistants each semester
3. Annual Budget of about $671,000
4. Main goal of the wiki will be staff coordination. The wiki will be used to coordinate schedules for student assistants, publish training materials and policies, and track and launch projects.
Requirements for the Library’s wiki:
1. Free or very little cost
2. Easily accessible
3. Offers professional support
4. Easy to update and upload media files
5. Unlimited Storage
By using the Wiki Choice Wizard at WikiMatrix.com I was given 16 wikis that matched my criteria of not having a history page, not caring about WYSIWG, providing professional support, no localization needed, hosted by someone else, and no to corporate branding. Out of the 16 wikis I was familiar with two of them: PBwiki and Wikispaces. After comparing the two, I decided to go with PBwiki.
PBwiki is free, there is no storage restriction, it has the ability to embed videos and file attachments, and it has extras such as blogs, forums, calendar, and image galleries. I have experience creating wikis using PBwiki and it is very easy to use.
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