While I was letting my weblog stagnate,
Eli Edwards was busy keeping us informed about happenings at SJSU that are of interest to SJSJ SLIS students. By the way, Eli, congratulations on graduating!

In her posting “King Library and Weblogs”, Eli posts information about the King Library’s beginning explorations into possibly implementing a Weblog for the library.

She has also posted the information from John Fink, about a new Wiki that he set up for SJSU SLIS students at Sliswiki. I believe its main purpose is to create an FAQ about things that are not covered, and should not be covered by the SLIS Web site. Future librarians have to know how to use this technology, so it might not be a bad idea to give it a try if you are a SJSU SLIS student and believe there is something that should be on the FAQ. Note that you need to create a login.

I gave it a try and added one entry that just points back to the first steps for new SJSU SLIS students. I found that it is best to use the icons at the top of the edit page. For example, to bold a sentence, select it and click on the icon to bold it. It will surround the text with three single quotes on each side. Instead of using a HTML construct, you select the icon that shows the world, and it will create square brackets which you fill with the http://… page title. You don’t need to know any HTML.