whither goes a wiki

i'm very excited about a new project we're going to be doing over the summer. it all starts with the pilot we're going to be running of the college's new content management system. basically, the content management system is going to give each department control over the content that appears on their little sections of the college web site. right now, the library already has control over that. what we don't have is a wiki.

the cms is going to allow us to integrate our blog with the web site, and also to add wikis that we intend to use, first, to develop more intuitive subject guides. right now we have a page of "guides" that includes "resource guides" in one column and "pathfinders" in another. the students have no idea what the difference is, and frankly i think the difference is nearly inconsequential. so the new plan is to combine the general topic guides (resource guides) with the sample searches (pathfinders), hopefully in a way that makes sense to the students.

i'm not sure when we get to start this pilot (the library is the guinea pig for the project because we already have our own departmental web presence), but apparently IT wants it ready for college-wide implementation by august. fun!