I’m impressed - my wiki paper is now up on E-LIS. The guidelines state that it could take a few days for approval, which is fair enough given that the repository is run by volunteers. I was expecting a short wait, so it was good to see that it was available in a matter of hours after I deposited it - thank you E-LIS person! 
The wiki paper is Collaboration and communication via wiki : The experience of Curtin University Library and Information Service, written in the this is what we did style.
I’ve used two different repositories because I wanted to try them both out - and I think MPOW’s repository wants peer-reviewed stuff. The blogging paper was reviewed, but not the wiki paper.
Feel free to leave any comments (or email flexnib at gmail dot com) on either this paper or my blogging paper.
This is a bit late, but for those who are interested, here’s the article I wrote on blogging for the recent ALIA conference: Creating community: The blog as a networking device. I’ve deposited it into MPOW’s* institutional repository.
Thanks to Toby Burrows for the insightful conversation that gave me the Eureka! moment (when everything I was trying to say then fell into place), sirexkat for her great comments and help with the article when it was in gestation, and to all the library bloggers who responded to my small questionnaire - I couldn’t have done it without you. And although I’m not sure how you thank a nebulous entity, I should also thank the (biblio)blogosphere without which none of this would ever have happened.
I’ve deposited my wiki article on E-LIS and will link to it once it’s been approved and is up. I note that someone who attended the recent LIANZA conference has already got his paper up on E-LIS. Obviously a much more organised person than me!
*MPOW: My Place Of Work. Term popularised (at least in the biblioblogosphere) by The Free Range Librarian, I believe .
Apart from the presentation ‘first’, the conference was the first large one I’d been to in years. The last time I’d attended a big conference was during my student years. I’d forgotten how difficult it can be to find people in a big conference. I didn’t get as much time to chat with people as I would have liked, and found all the rushing around from keynote to presentation to keynote, quite tiring.
I would have liked to have had more time to talk with some of the presenters, too - there were quite a few interesting papers, and I found myself wishing there was a way to sit with presenters and have a good chat, ask questions, and so forth. I’m glad I took copious notes - I’d intended to write things up immediately after each day, but it just didn’t work out that way. Still, my notes are detailed enough that it’s hopefully not going to be too difficult to reconstruct things.
I’m glad things are back to ‘normal’ now. I’ll now have time to catch up with blogging and all those emails I haven’t answered… and then there’s all those books I haven’t read… and lots of ideas - what can I do with them? Work’s going to be busy, too, with our regular end-of-year planning. Never a dull moment!
