I have just subscribed to Rollyo. This site gives you the tools to create your own search engine and allows you to add up to 25 URLs to your own unique Search Roll. My user name is Tigerquollsmum. I have made two separate Search Rolls. The first is called Library Quest and just combines The State Library of Tasmania, UTAS and Trove. The other Roll is called Useful Library Blogs and combines:
Connectinglibrarian.com
Librariesinteract.info
Oedb.org
Libworm.com
Showing posts with label library blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label library blogs. Show all posts
Monday, April 5, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Librarian.net Blog
West J (2010) Librarian.net,Vermont, USA, viewed 5/4/2010, http://www.librarian.net/
This is an authoritative and well designed blog produced by Jessamyn West. Jessamyn has worked in the library industry since 1994 and is a former member of the American Library Association council, a current moderator on Metafilter, an author of many library related books and articles and has her own entry on Wikipedia. This blog was voted number one in the Top 25 Librarian Bloggers on the Online Educational Database website in 2007. It has been established since 1999 and is active and frequently updated . Jessamyn is known for her unconventional views on her profession and is very politically active and aware. She states she is anti-censorship and pro-freedom.
The blog has links to a "Frequently Asked Questions" page, a comprehensive "About" page and to her "Talks" page. The blog covers a range of issues related to the library industry and in pariticular the political pressures in the USA.
Draw backs are that the blog doesn't provide a list of subjects covered or a search field to enable you to search the blog for your subjects of interest.
This is an authoritative and well designed blog produced by Jessamyn West. Jessamyn has worked in the library industry since 1994 and is a former member of the American Library Association council, a current moderator on Metafilter, an author of many library related books and articles and has her own entry on Wikipedia. This blog was voted number one in the Top 25 Librarian Bloggers on the Online Educational Database website in 2007. It has been established since 1999 and is active and frequently updated . Jessamyn is known for her unconventional views on her profession and is very politically active and aware. She states she is anti-censorship and pro-freedom.
The blog has links to a "Frequently Asked Questions" page, a comprehensive "About" page and to her "Talks" page. The blog covers a range of issues related to the library industry and in pariticular the political pressures in the USA.
Draw backs are that the blog doesn't provide a list of subjects covered or a search field to enable you to search the blog for your subjects of interest.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Planet Cataloging
Baxmeyer, J, Clarke, K, (2010) Planet Cataloging, viewed 3/4/2010, http://planetcataloging.org/
Planet Cataloging is an automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata. There are approx 59 cataloguing blogs on its list. The site was named one of the top 10 Librarian Blogs to Read in 2009. Subscribing to its RSS feed permits subscribers to collect recent postings from all 59 blogs. While some of the blogs listed are regularly updated, many are not, and some had been inactive for quite some time. Even with these problems it is a great site to find and connect to cataloguing blogs.
Planet Cataloging is an automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata. There are approx 59 cataloguing blogs on its list. The site was named one of the top 10 Librarian Blogs to Read in 2009. Subscribing to its RSS feed permits subscribers to collect recent postings from all 59 blogs. While some of the blogs listed are regularly updated, many are not, and some had been inactive for quite some time. Even with these problems it is a great site to find and connect to cataloguing blogs.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
iLibrarian Blog
Hi,
I have just been searching for library related issues on Technorati, an online site for searching and ranking blogs.Here is my annotated bibliography on the Ilibrarian blog.
Kronski, E (2010), Ilibrarian Blog, Online Education Database, USA, viewed 15 March 2010, http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/
This blog is owned by Ellyssa Kronski, an Information Services Technologist at Barnard College as well as a teacher of emerging technologies at two other Universities. Ellyssa is also the author of Web 2.0 for "Libraries and Information Professionals" and writes a column for the Library Journal's Acedemic Newswire. This gives the blog a very authoritive source as well as the fact that it has been going since 2007. In 2008 it was listed in The LISNews 10 Blogs To Read.
It seems to be well written and researched.
The blog is very active and has a quite a number of regular posts. The blog is orientated towards the more technical aspects of library web 2.0 applications. Ellyssa includes alot of bright and interesting images, charts, links and slide shows. The blog contains numerous topics that are directly related to my library course. e.g Information literacy, mashups, micro blogging, RSS feeds, social networking, tagging, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 isssues. She gives alot of links to other related sites and blogs.
I have just been searching for library related issues on Technorati, an online site for searching and ranking blogs.Here is my annotated bibliography on the Ilibrarian blog.
Kronski, E (2010), Ilibrarian Blog, Online Education Database, USA, viewed 15 March 2010, http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/
This blog is owned by Ellyssa Kronski, an Information Services Technologist at Barnard College as well as a teacher of emerging technologies at two other Universities. Ellyssa is also the author of Web 2.0 for "Libraries and Information Professionals" and writes a column for the Library Journal's Acedemic Newswire. This gives the blog a very authoritive source as well as the fact that it has been going since 2007. In 2008 it was listed in The LISNews 10 Blogs To Read.
It seems to be well written and researched.
The blog is very active and has a quite a number of regular posts. The blog is orientated towards the more technical aspects of library web 2.0 applications. Ellyssa includes alot of bright and interesting images, charts, links and slide shows. The blog contains numerous topics that are directly related to my library course. e.g Information literacy, mashups, micro blogging, RSS feeds, social networking, tagging, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 isssues. She gives alot of links to other related sites and blogs.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Connecting Librarian
I have been checking out various blogs that deal with library related issues.
Mclean M (2010), Connecting Librarian, Casey Cardinia Library Corporation, Victoria, Aust., viewed March 2010, http://connectinglibrarian.com/
The Connecting Librarian is an interesting blog that is written by Michelle Mclean, an Information Librarian, who works for the Casey Cardinia Library Corporation in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. In 2006 she won the Ramsey and Reid Scholorship, which enabled her to conduct a study tour of USA libraries that offer cutting edge virtual services. She lists her main interests as Web 2.0 technologies, virtual serices and reference services. I found her writing is mostly concerned with the growing development of Web 2.0 applications in Libraries. Her blog is well set out and easy to use. I particularly liked the links to other library related blogs that she follows. I think that the owner of the blog being Australian makes the blog information really relevant to our working environments.
Her most recent posts concern the VALA (Victorian Association for Library Automation) 2010 Conference that was held on 9-11th February in Melbourne. The theme was "Connections, Content and Conversations". I think it sounded really applicable to what we are all learning in class. Of particular interest was Michelle's own conference presentation called Evaluating Web 2.0: user experiences with public library blogs which she has posted on Slideshare.
Mclean M (2010), Connecting Librarian, Casey Cardinia Library Corporation, Victoria, Aust., viewed March 2010, http://connectinglibrarian.com/
The Connecting Librarian is an interesting blog that is written by Michelle Mclean, an Information Librarian, who works for the Casey Cardinia Library Corporation in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. In 2006 she won the Ramsey and Reid Scholorship, which enabled her to conduct a study tour of USA libraries that offer cutting edge virtual services. She lists her main interests as Web 2.0 technologies, virtual serices and reference services. I found her writing is mostly concerned with the growing development of Web 2.0 applications in Libraries. Her blog is well set out and easy to use. I particularly liked the links to other library related blogs that she follows. I think that the owner of the blog being Australian makes the blog information really relevant to our working environments.
Her most recent posts concern the VALA (Victorian Association for Library Automation) 2010 Conference that was held on 9-11th February in Melbourne. The theme was "Connections, Content and Conversations". I think it sounded really applicable to what we are all learning in class. Of particular interest was Michelle's own conference presentation called Evaluating Web 2.0: user experiences with public library blogs which she has posted on Slideshare.
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