Professional Uses of Blogs

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Professional Uses of Blogs RSS

• Summer Reference Institute, 2005
• Columbia University Libraries
• Jenna Freedman, Barnard College
• http//bc.barnard.columbia.edu/jfreedma/talks/Blo
  gsandRSS.ppt

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blog basics

• Web based
• Instant
• Reverse chronological
• Links, within entries and collected separately
• Community participation
• Types personal, political, community, academic,
  corporate, professional, subject specialists,
  institutional, news, service
• Bloglines and blogrolls

• Examples
• Slashdot
• LISNews
• Librarian Avengers
• Librarian's Rant
• Librarians Library staff in the UK
• Kept-Up Academic Librarian
• Lorcan Dempsey's weblog
• Librarian in Black
• Mesoj
• PLA Blog
• Radical Reference

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Library blogs

• Barnard College mostly for internal use,
  although visible to anyone informational
• Georgia State University Libraries library news
  and links to subject blogs
• Urbana Free Library construction diary
• University of Minnesota Libraries blog hosting
  updates on the service
• Yale University'cause if Yale's doing it...
• List of academic library blogs http//www.blogwith
  outalibrary.net/?page_id94academic

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RSS

• Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, RDF
  (Resource Description Framework) Site Summary.
• Aggregators web vs. software
• Bloglines (web)
• Liferea (free opensource software)
• Search blog content
• Feedster
• Metablog Blog without a Library
• Non blog content
• Open Directory Project
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• New York Times
• Find Articles
• Yahoo Feeds, Yahoo News RSS
• Journals
• Library Applications
• In the ILS
• New Books and Library News
• In e-mail Thunderbird

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further reading

• I appropriated much of the content of this talk
  from Steven M. Cohen (with permission)
• AOL IM nylibrarian
• http//www.librarystuff.net/,
• http//www.stevenmcohen.info/SEMLS05252005.ppt
• Some of it also came from "Wouldn't You Like to
  Be a Blogger, Too?" by Jonathan Harwell (also
  with permission)
• http//radicalreference.info/ALA/skillshares/blogg
  ing2005
• http//www.bloglines.com/blog/mesoj
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol)
• Eli Edwards on Blogs in Academia.
  http//edwards.orcas.net/misseli/blog/archives/00
  0200.html
• Susan Herzog, BlogBib http//blog-bib.blogspot.com
  / Blogging resources for academic libraries (seen
  on LibrarianinBlack)
• Also spotted on LibrarianinBlack, uses of RSS for
  libraries by Gerry McKiernan http//www.llrx.com/f
  eatures/richsite.htm
• Jessamyn West on Staying Current Using Blogs
  RSS
• Via LISNews, Explaining the Use of RSS or Atom
  Feeds in Research from the Virtual Chase.

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blogs cited

• http//barnardrefdesk.blogspot.com/
• http//blog.lib.umn.edu/
• http//www.bloglines.com/blog/mesoj
• http//www.blogwithoutalibrary.net
• http//dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_In
  formation_Science/Journals/
• http//keptup.typepad.com/academic/
• http//lblog.jalcorn.net/
• http//librarianinblack.typepad.com/
• http//orweblog.oclc.org/
• http//www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links.html
• http//www.feedster.com
• http//www.librarianavengers.org/weblog/
• http//www.library.gsu.edu/news
• http//www.lisnews.com
• http//www.livejournal.com/community/librarians_uk
  /
• http//www.library.njit.edu/
• http//www.plablog.org/
• http//www.radicalreference.info
• http//slashdot.org/