Library Blogs: An Overview

an electronic bibliography by Starr Hoffman

I recommend getting your feet wet with the blogwithoutalibrary site and with Michael Stephen's presentation on Weblogs & Libraries (use this link to the OPAL Archive if you can't view the previous link).

Recent Updates

• 7/10/06, "Seeking Advice and Tips for Blogger Wannabes," includes some links and information about an upcoming mini-course on becoming a blogger, from JanieH at Library Garden
• 7/5/06, "Why Libraries Blog" from Steven Cohen at LibraryStuff
• 6/29/06, "State of the Library Blogosphere, 2006" from Amanda Etches-Johnson at blogwithoutalibrary.net
• 6/26/06, LITA's "Next Step Blogging" panel at ALA Annual:
  • Download the PowerPoint
  • Notes from Hidden Peanuts

blogwithoutalibrary

• posts under the "blogs" category
• Blogging Libraries Wiki
  • lists library blogs organized by type of library
  • great for browsing a lot of library blogs to get an idea of how they're being used

TechTalk: Blogs in Libraries

by Valerie Glenn, 6.15.05

introduction to the topic

TechTalk: RSS in Libraries

by Mark Phillips, 6.16.05

introduction to RSS in a library setting

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

• created by Meredith Farkas
• great resource for library blogging

Evaluating LIS Weblogs

by Michael Stephens

"Homer Library Gets Press for Blog, RSS, and Flickr!"

by Jenny Levine (aka "The Shifted Librarian")

a post about one library's use of blogs and other new technologies to promote themselves

Ann Arbor District Library

• an example where the library blog is the front page of the library website
• also has about 7 blogs on this single site

Other Resources

• "Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library's Services," by Darlene Fichter, __Marketing Library Services__, Vol. 17 No. 6, Nov/Dec 2003

• Michael Stephens's posts, categorized "LIS Weblogs Rule"

• My OPAL session notes (with Michael Stephens)

• My own del.ici.ous tags for "blogging"

• My OPAL session notes on Andrea Mercado's OPAL presentation on Conference Blogging

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