I tend to agree with the readings that state that wikis are good for quickly gathering facts or serving as a starting point for further research. Given the open content nature of wikis, I worry about people relying on them as if they were edited/peer-reviewed encyclopedias. With that caveat in mind, I think they're great. I've seen them used at Penn State for storing best-practices information, as well as addressing policy and technical issues within the university and its many (many, many) colleges, departments, and services. It was fantastic to have a single place to go to to get department-specific info created by people within the very department in question. They also used it extensively for conferences and symposia to add real-time information.
Reviewing some of the other resources, I really liked the subject guide and pathway wikis, and I thought the idea of annotating catalogs with customer reviews and further-reading suggestions is fantastic. I also liked going through (or playing in) the iHCPL sandbox... I got some great vacation ideas.
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