Founded by Meredith Farkas, faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon and open access advocate, Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki invites librarians to share success stories, resources, and tools with fellow librarians. As the site explains, "There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession [of librarianship], but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized. That is what we are trying to do." In line with this aim, Library Success offers an alphabetized list of more than a dozen Categories, including Community, Reference Service and Information Literacy, Services to Specific Groups, and Technology. Within each category, visitors can explore a number of specific topics for stories, tips, links to online resources, and more. Any user may update the wiki (with the sole request that those listing a specific product under technology include their initials in order to prevent the blog from turning into a promotional forum) after creating an account.
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