Blogging, RSS

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Blogging, RSS Academic Libraries

• Applications Technology

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• Why Blog?
• A quick, easy and affordable way to market your
  librarys services, interact with users, and
  collaborate with staff.

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• Finding Academic Library Blogs
• Google search blog university library
• Wiki of academic library blogs
• Blogging libraries wiki
• Library Weblogs
• Blogging presentations at conferences

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• Types of Academic Library Blogs
• Library news
• Public relations
• Staff communication / intranet
• Special projects
• Subject resources
• Library instruction
• Library Director blogs

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Starting a Library Blog

• Consider purpose audience
• Choose blogging software
• Develop a blogging policy
• Select a theme or template for the blog
• Consider staffing issues
• Post content
• Market your blog

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Popular Blogging Software
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• Enhance Your Blog
• Use Flickr and LibraryThing to add photos.
• Let users subscribe with Feedburner.
• Allow other sites to syndicate your content.
• Interact with patrons using Meebo.
• Make it del.icio.us.
• Include Pages Top Posts, About Us.
• Build a multi-lingual blog.

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• Managing Your Blog Reading List
• There are so many blogs, how can you keep up?
• RSS
• Feedreaders, aggregators
• RSS Compendium is a list with links to a variety
  of RSS readers categorized by different
  platforms
• http//allrss.com/rssreaders.html

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• Moving Forward with RSS
• Start with a web-based aggregator like Bloglines,
  GoogleReader or NetVibes.
• Find feeds of interest on LISFeeds, Google
  (subject RSS), or an RSS search engine.
• Read your aggregator daily.
• Start a blog and provide feeds of your librarys
  news and events.

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• How Libraries are Using Feeds
• Syndicating blog content (on Web sites
  including Facebook, into online courseware,
  etc.).
• Creating OPML packages for library patrons.
• Subject guides , Podcast directories
• RSS feeds from the ILS
• New books feeds
• Search feeds
• Feeds of checked-out books and holds
• RSS feeds from databases
• News feeds
• Search feeds
• Subject bibliographies

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• More information on Blogging
• Blogging in Academic Libraries ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE
  Virtual Conference
• Blogs and Wikis Workshop by Kate Pitcher
• Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your
  Librarys Services by Darlene Fichter
• 10 Questions Every Blogger Should Ask Before
  Posting by Damien Van Vroenhoven
• More information on RSS
• RSS in Plain English (Video)
• Bloglines for Librarians in Three (and a half)
  Easy Steps by Joy Weese Moll
• Using RSS to increase user awareness of
  e-resources in academic libraries by Jat Bhatt.
  HigherEd BlogCon
• more things you can do with RSS 14 Other Ways
  to Use RSS, Things you can do with RSS wiki
• RSS4Lib Blog about innovative ways libraries use
  RSS

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• This presentation is available at
• http//www.slideshare.net
• Denise OShea
• Systems Librarian
• Fairleigh Dickinson University CoolCAT
• oshea_at_fdu.edu

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Credits

• Blogging Readiness by cambodia4kidsorg, available
  at
• http//www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/2670
  60150/
• Through the eye of the needle by Viejito,
  available at
• http//www.flickr.com/photos/viejito/179747774/