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The inevitable question arises, What if the collective intelligence of students falls short of the mark? Remember that wiki technology allows for a rollback to earlier versions.
This could be accomplished by other students or by library faculty.
E-mail notification of recent changes can be configured to help librarians track what's going on.
Further, I would argue that some content on our sites also falls short because it is static, not always updated, and doesn't always reflect the range of student experience.
We've set a pretty high bar on our Web sites.
The collective intelligence of students might set it higher.
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Laura B.
Cohen is Web Support Librarian at the University at Albany, SUNY.
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Wikis, Collective Intelligence and Libraries
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