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Heathcare Wikis At Toronto Public Library

10. March 2009
Toronto / Canada

In a large public organization it can be a challenge to quickly adopt new technologies, especially technologies such as wikis which promote decentralization of control.

Donna MacLeod and Sandy Arbuthnot of the Toronto Public Library will discuss how the library has come to use collaborative web tools, the challenges they faced and what they did to overcome these challenges.

The talk will also guide us through two wikis created for the the people of Ontatio and hosted on a low-cost wiki provider: Consumer Health Information Service (CHIS) and CHIS asthma information. Both sites provide reliable health information, written in understandable language, from a Canadian perspective.

They will also describe ways library staff use wikis internally, and an give us an insight into possible future directions for wikis in their online services.

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