Wiki Week

I found week 4 interesting. But an getting bogged down with work so I am thankful for the catch-up week - I needed it. Spent way more than 15 minutes a day on reading and looking at wikis. In fact, Learning 2.0 is eating into my lunch times just to keep up!! A common complaint I fear. Maybe I'll loose weight if I can't get out to buy lunch. But it is great to be in a position to learn new technology during work hours and I appreciate how lucky we are to have this opportunity and am trying to embrace it all.

Anyhow, I looked at Possible Next Generation Catalogues - futurelib/examples. I checked out Aquabrowser at Queens Library. Here I searched Statue of Liberty, Abraham Lincoln and New Orleans. These searches lead to books on these subjects. Quite a good way to discover what is available. Got very distracted looking at Montana History Wiki. Entered the Subject Guides, then under General Information I clicked on Lewis and Clark. Clicking here I entered Encountering Montana Lewis and Clark in Big Sky Country. I love history so I explored further. Under Lewis and Clark Quick facts I found lists of Corps of Discovery - names of members of expedition, list of suppplies, including 'Indian presents' and lists of tribes encounted by the Corps. If you want to explore more go to http://www.his.state.mt.us/lewisandclark/css/default.asp. Above is a photo of Montana - beautiful isn't it. A quite place away from the fast pace of modern day life.
I also visited the Mint Museum North Carolina - mintwiki and saw what exhibitions were currently showing - Masters of Disguise interested me as did an upcoming exhibition - Coming Home: selection of the Schoen Collection. Nice paintings. Could be a good way to 'test' an exhibition before spending time (and more often than not money) going to the real thing. Maybe State Library could wiki exhibitions or special collections or catalogue.