John Hubbard appears to have started LISWiki as a gathering spot for the library community. I experimented with a wiki on TSL last year, but it ended up being spammed to death (literally). I’ve been meaning to try again in order to start tracking some of the “shifted” things libraries are doing, in particular audio ebooks. I know there are libraries that think they can’t do this-techie-thing or that-techie-thing because of their size and/or budget, when the truth is that there are other libraries of their size and/or with their budget that are doing these things. So I’ve wanted to try the wiki thing again in order to help libraries find others like themselves to help each other or share ideas, best practices, etc.

Rather than try to manage something like this on my own again, I’ve added an Audio ebooks section to the LISWiki and quickly threw up a couple of examples. If your library is circulating Audible, OverDrive, or netLibrary/Recorded Books titles, please add your information on that page. My hope is that small public libraries or medium-sized academic libraries will be able to find each other this way to pool information to enhance or even start new services. Wikis are what you make them, so let’s make this one valuable.

Thanks for setting this up, John!