Linda Crane gave a 2 hour lecture to over 60 music students about creating a wiki for incoming first year students that demonstrated wikis should include more than just content. She emphasized that wikis also need structure, navigation, and visuals like font, underlining, color, and illustrations to maximize information retrieval and create relationships between information. While designing wikis can be challenging, the lecture provided good feedback and results, and as wikis become more popular librarians may be asked to do more wiki design projects in the future.

1. Lunching with RenoirDemonstrating why wikis should be more than just contentLinda CraneLiaison LibrarianUniversity of Liverpool

2. Background2011 first year assignment for 60+ Music students.“Creating a wiki for incoming first year music students.”My input : to talk about the possible content of the wiki – both Library specific & general - in a 2 hour interactive lecture.

3. So what?Wiki = content (information) +structure + navigation + visualsDesign ProjectNot that easy to get across.We aren’t used to doing it.Wikis becoming more popular.May be asked to do more of this.Good feedback & good results.

4. Structure

5. Navigation Relationships between informationMaximises information retrievedUnifies

6. Need to establish the same things within a wikiFontUnderliningColourIllustrationsMake the look of the wiki work for youThank you