I've called this a "beta test" before. The project has kinks -- not all of it was a success (Great Philosophical Crisis of '14, anyone?), and there are things that need my immediate attention before we get started again for next semester.
But that's just it: I want to keep this going.
I'm also wondering what else we could do on similar platforms; I have all of the students join Goodreads at the beginning of every semester, so they have a sort of "reader's social network." What if we switched our library blog (whose traffic has been pitiful this semester) over to a wiki, using something like Weebly? SMA's could post book reviews, book trailers...all kinds of cool stuff.
I'm also wondering about whether or not we should leave old pages up; before, I mentioned that Weebly didn't seem to have a page limit for sites, but eventually, if we don't weed some of them out, it's going to be unwieldy...and that's on the off chance that we don't reach a limit for pages. Would we keep everything, then, and find a way to organize sites and sources? I like the idea of keeping a digital archive, like Dewey Browse...but I also wonder about things like link maintenance. We could have students fill out a broken link report form, and have SMA's find replacement sites for any that suddenly don't work... it's a thought.
Over all, the beta test taught us a lot about what needs to be happening in the RRS, and in the library. So. in order to keep the RRS going, we're going to have to adapt and learn from our success and failures.
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