Hiki nô wiki! Week 7-Thing 16

Aloha Web 2.0!

Laki librarians, learn on wikis (say that five times fast--go ahead, you know you want to)! There are some âiwaiwa wikis out there.

There are tons of time-saving, smart uses for collaborative editing of documents. My husband uses wikis when he's working on a project tapping science teams around the world. It's a lot easier than making the poor Chinese members stay up until four o'clock in the morning to dial in for a conference call.

Obviously, there are tons of applications for such wikis in the library community, both internal and external. Most of the pages I viewed lent themselves well to subject guide design. Librarians and consumers can add news of interest to the the public sites, growing them into organic, relevant sites people will be interested and motivated to keep checking. One miki`oi wiki was the Princeton Book Lovers. I've thought for a long time that our customers would appreciate and benefit from the documentation once a month of a few librarians' personal puke recommendations in the Source catalog, but such an invaluable reader's advisory would be even better on-line where customers can also contribute to it.

A kupaianaha wiki I posted to my he `ono was EZ Library Programs, offering a searchable index to a wiki dedicated to sharing children's programing ideas. Now, each entry was a bit raw and pa`akikî to understand, the data run-on and stream-of-consciousness. But in spite of needing serious paragraph breaks and requiring a great deal of ho`omanawanui to sift through it, the material proved useful and hoihoi.

Pau!

P.S. Thank you, Pukui, Mary Kawena & Elbert, Samuel H., Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised
and Enlarged Edition, University Of Hawai`i Press, Honolulu, 1986. This post would have been blah without the real Hawaiian words!

Âiwaiwa Amazing

Aloha Hello, goodbye, love

He `ono! Delicious

Hiki nô! Absolutely able to do!

Hoihoi Interesting

Ho`omanawanui Patience (it takes patience just to pronounce the whole word:)

Kupaianaha! Wonderful!

Laki Lucky

Miki`oi! Excellently made!

Pa`akikî Hard

Pau! Done!

Puke Book