I thought I had better look at some home grown blogs. Here's what I came up with.
CW, Fiona Kathryn, Peta, Snail, Michelle, Morgan, Techxplorer (2010), Libraries Interact,Australia, viewed 5th April 2010, http://librariesinteract.info/
The blog was set up by a group of Australian Librarian bloggers but they only give their user names and there doesn't seem to be any qualifications or authority provided. Apparently anyone can contribute, you do not have to be Australian, a librarian or a blogger. The site does stipulate that your posts do need to be non-commercial and relevant to the scope of the blog. The scope of the blog seems to be fairly general and includes any library related reflections, job postings, notifications of events, links to interesting sites and discussions of the biblioblogosphere (I love that word!).
The site is well designed and provides very flexable search options in the form of a general search field, an archive month search field, a categories search field and a Thali tag cloud. A link to a list of Australian library blogs is also provided. This blog is more relevant for Australian library employees as it covers both the local industry and general library issues.
Good evaluation and citation, Janine - CP
ReplyDeleteA really refreshing blog, one I think I will follow. I particuarly like the "lessons" such as: No one will die; Take a step and see where it takes you (or something to that effect). I particuarly enjoyed the humour in this blog.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting blog Janine. There is much timely, pertinet and interesting information on it. I was particularly interested in the blog on Facebook privacy issues as this is an ongoing problem. The 30 day blog challenge for June had just too many entries to even contemplate reading.
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