The How Do I? wiki is the creation of the PR and Promotions Committee. It’s a collection of common and unusual research questions, from suggestions of books for Islamic Finance to sources of free cases or Treaty information.

The wiki started off as a place for the PR committee to share information and organise their committee meetings – hence the less than memorable URL of biallpr! It also incorporated the beginnings of the How Do I? part of the wiki, in which the committee saved useful answers posted to the Lis-Law email distribution list. From those humble beginnings, the wiki has developed into a very useful resource and was officially launched at the BIALL Conference 2009.

Navigating the wiki is easy – you can browse for entries via some broad subject headings (legislation, cases, treaties etc), search the wiki, or browse using the A-Z index.

We’ve used the tagging technology the wiki came with to assign tags to each record, and have also assigned entries to a Folder which corresponds with the category it can be found in. The Folders really aid navigation as whichever page you might be on, you can quickly browse to another page also in the same Folder through the “Navigator” on the right hand side.

The wiki can also be searched using the “Search for Pages or Files” box above the “Navigator”.  This lets you search for pages by their title or by the contents of the pages.

The Committee believe the wiki will be a useful tool, particularly for solo librarians who don’t have colleagues to bounce ideas off or new starters to the profession who are just finding their feet… but essentially we hope its useful to all!

The wiki is constantly evolving, with new entries being added all the time – no longer just from Lis-Law. It is not designed to replace the Lis-Law list, by no means, but will be a way of finding those answers posted to Lis-Law with greater ease – and find some other information too!

Access and commenting on the wiki 

The wiki is available for anyone to access however making amending to pages is restricted to members of the Committee. If you wish to add comments to the wiki, you can request “Reader” access which will activate the Comments function or you can “Contact the Wiki Owner” to suggest any amendments or additions to the wiki. We welcome any comments about the wiki or suggestions so please do get in touch!

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