6-Learning about blogs

Hi ho, hi ho it's off to blog I go...

So, this is when we learn about blogs. I have been familiar with blogs for awhile so this is not hard for me to understand. I am not a blogger, as my page heading indicates but obviously many people love it. It's interesting to see what Giles Turnbull says of the blog in "The state of the blog" WriteTheWeb—2001/02/28 reposted in an article on the infotoday.com website
"Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library's Services" by Darlene Fichter. He says,
"the blog concept is about three things: Frequency, Brevity and Personality." Bloggin seems to open up a nice little world of dialogue without face to face communication, which I think is hard for a lot of people. Frequency is my problem with blogging I don't have an interest in making time to blog every day or every week for that matter. I thing if you like it great, if not, that's great too:)

Here is a list of the blogs from the above mentioned article on infotoday.com

Blogs in the Library Sphere
Peter Scott's list of Library Weblogs (http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html).

• The St. Joseph County Public Library Book Blog focuses on upcoming releases in publishing and entertainment. http://homepage.mac.com/nrdtsjcpl/ B1732759005/index.html

• Roselle Public Library's Blogger Book Club is an online book discussion group for kids to share their thoughts about books. http://bloggerbookclub.blogspot.com

• LISNews.com focuses on news for information professionals and is a collaborative Weblog. http://www.lisnews.com

• Library News is a Weblog featuring library-related news, events, and resources for Georgia State University. http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp

• ... h20boro lib blog is Waterboro Public Library's Weblog of literary and library news and resources. http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm

• Engineering Library Blog features news and events in one column of the library home page. http://library.usask.ca/engin

• Stark County Law Library Blawg serves the legal community of Stark County, Ohio. http://temp.starklawlibrary.org/blog

• Urbana Free Library has one called Construction News featuring photos and updates on the building underway. http://urbanafreelibrary.org/bldgblog.html

• Jenny Levine's Shifted Librarian looks at how to make libraries more portable to serve users better. http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com

• Peter Scott's Library Blog offers links and news about library resources and libraries around the world. http://blog.xrefer.com