The library where I work has been doing our best to move into the future. This summer with a redesigned website and not one, not two, but three new blogs! (The third one is internal.) We’ll also be trying IM reference shortly.
What prompted this post is the latest way we’ve drawn attention to [...]

Open Access News
Digesting biomedical blogs
Postgenomic tracks the biomedical papers being discussed by bloggers, identifies the most-discussed papers and journals, and shows what kinds of researchers are discussing what kinds of papers.

What I find interesting is that there is an impact tracker with 3 OA journals in the top 20.

Boing Boing: Free/open source blogosphere
ibiblio.org has taken open-source blogging software (Wordpress) and altered it for massive blog management so you can offer them to all your students. Oh, if only we had php and mysql.

10 Tips for Attracting More Comments | Performancing.com
Setting up all the community stuff on the library’s website won’t be much good if no one uses it.

Open Access News
Tom Wilson, Open access and Weblogs – working together, Information Research Weblog, February 10, 2006.
We’ve had occasional instances of the value of Weblogs in spreading news about papers in Information Research and we have another at the moment. Nahyun Kwon’s paper on virtual reference service has been noted in a number [...]

Forgive me if I’m the last to realize but this but I only just started using Bloglines (other reader went boom). It’s a free rss aggregator that also includes a blog. You can set your blog to be public or private and send items to it directly from your feeds list.
What occured to me [...]

Ohio University Libraries Blog Initiative
Good examples of library blogs.

In an attempt to get my unread list in mt aggregator down to something managable, I present the inevitable link list (annotated because some librarians are born, not made).

ALA | Patriot Act Extension Debated at Closed Congressional Meeting

In a closed-door meeting May 26, the Senate Intelligence Committee failed to agree on a proposal that would [...]

More on Blogging Guidelines

The guidelines posted seem more related to the library environment than the risks.
Blog guidelines and policies are going to become more important for libraries as more jump onto the bandwagon. I hope that these examples help in formulating an official policy for your library.

Blogging and RSS — The “What’s It?” and “How To” of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators
The internet has long been valued by teachers and librarians as a powerful research and communications tool, and in the last 10 years, it has brought about a sea change in the way students find, manage, [...]

Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library’s Services

Librarians have had to learn how to do a lot with just a little in order to promote awareness of their programs and services. They have seized the opportunities to market libraries in the real world via traditional media: newspapers, corporate newsletters, [...]

10 ways to use blogs for managing projects
Blogs aren’t just for marketing – there are many areas of the business where they can help improve information flow, reduce clutter and avoid the dreaded “but I didn’t know about that” situation. Here’s ten ways that we’ve used blogs for managing projects – both internally and with [...]

B.L. Ochman’s weblog – Internet strategy, marketing, public relations, politics with news and commentary: How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments
While basic writing talent is innate, many of the skills for writing compelling blog posts and and salient comments can be learned. The basic guidelines: keep your copy lively, factual, tight, clear [...]

I forgot to mention that I’m at home this week. My library actually closed early last week because of bad weather. Good thing about being at home – feeding the addiction. Bad thing about being at home – no routine means I forget to post. So here’s a last one for the year. Regular posting [...]

Charlene Li has listed a sample corporate Blogging policy…
As more libraries incorporate weblogs as part of their content delivery mechanisms, has anyone established policies? Library Stuff
Not that I know of but I think it’s a good idea, particularly for group blogging and when the author(s) don’t have a lot of experience publishing on the web.

From the experience, here are Ten Guidelines for Developing Your Internal Blog for any type of library that wishes to create an internal communication tool.
Easy and practical guidelines that you may not think of when you start.
Why would you want an internal blog? A lot of valuable information gets generated in a day that [...]

ProBlogger is a “free collection of tips on writing content, search engine optimization, using advertising and affiliate programs etc – to help bloggers explore ways of adding revenue streams to what they do.” ProBlogger also contains articles on promoting and marketing your blog. [link via B.L. Ochman].
LibTalk Blog: Marketing Your Blog & RSS Feeds

Very varied [...]

The Internet Courses: Weblogs is the ultimate list of sources on weblogs in libraries. There’s no way to tell if she plans on updating it but it makes for a great launching pad for research.
Thanks Jessamyn.

But wait, you might say, isn’t the whole point to get people to visit your website? No, it isn’t. The point, insofar as product marketing is concerned, is to get people in touch with information about your products. Your website is just a means to that end, as is an RSS feed. It isn’t about [...]

You can become a trusted information source. The more you add useful links to your weblog, the more you become a trusted source for information. For example, Oceana’s weblog provides useful and regular information from experts pointing to studies, projects, and other information that I would not be able to find on my own. I [...]

The Shifted Librarian: ALA OITP Is Blogging and RSSing!
It’s for the Copyright Advisory Network

As Steven Cohen points out, Weblogs: Do they belong in libraries? never really addresses that question. The author does a nice review of how they are already being used but doesn’t mention any reasons for or against.
It wouldn’t take very long browsing through my archives to realize that my own answer is an unequivocal “Yes!” [...]

I recently came across two excellent examples of blogs published by libraries.

Librarian Geek at the West Warwick Public Library
UMN: Bio-Med Library – Public Health

Librarian Geek lists monthly tips about technology in the library. The library where I work has had excellent results from publishing weekly tips, they remind patrons we’re there and show that we’re [...]

Librarian Blogs and Sites Internet Directory lists a ton of personal websites for librarians. It’s a great place to start for web-surfing.

I can’t reccomend Weblogs and RSS in information work from Library Information Update strongly enough. Winship does a great job explaining the possitive aspects of blogs and and syndication.
So technically there’s no reason for an organisation of whatever size not to blog the ease of use means contributions don’t have to be [...]

Libraries and businesses have similar aims, to attract consumers. Businesses have started official blogs as a way to improve their images. It makes them look hip and current, accessible to their customers and involved in day-to-day life. On the practical side, the blogs provide easily updatable places to post news items and tips that might [...]

Blogging is Booming
Super-popular blogger Glen Reynolds, of Instapundit.com, leaves his traffic logs open, where we can see that he averages around 100,000 visitors a day and more than 2 million uniques a month. Considering that he’s only one guy, that’s astounding. By comparison, HoustonChronicle.com reports 1.5 million unique monthly readers. Granted, Instapundit is one of [...]

BEST BUSINESS BLOG EXAMPLES AND WHY IT’S HIGH TIME TO THINK ABOUT A BLOG FOR YOUR COMPANY
While many businesses are still getting used to the idea of having any kind of Web presence, forward-thinking companies are looking to blogs as simple, self-sustaining Web sites and Intranets. If you’re not thinking about how to use blogs [...]

blogging the market
That’s why weblogs are huge: they take the power out of the IT department and the webmaster’s hegemony and hand it over to where knowledge really resides – to the individual workers who are knowledgeable enough and know how to speak with a human voice.
Which means less work for the IT department [...]

If you’re looking for more librarian blogs, libraristic links will keep you busy for quite a while.

Catalogablog
A blog for catalogers, it had to happen sometime.

WebJunction:Blogs for Libraries is a good overview of what blogs are and how libraries and librarians can benefit from them.

LIS Blogsource- A weblog for library weblogs. Now that’s metadata.
It’s also a good idea, thanks guys. Already added to my RSS feeds.

In Real Life Implementation of Weblogs in the Classroom, a Georgia teacher talks about how her elementary school students and high school students in New Jersey learned writing skills by using blogs as a way of writing to and for each other. It makes you think about other possible uses.

An html version of a presentation on edubloggiing was posted by Geof and Randy. They’ve also posted pdfs of articles: “Throw Another Blog on the Wire” and ?Weblogging on Campus and Beyond?.
Edublogging, if you are wondering involves using blogs, or Internet-based journals, in association with classes.

Deep Thinking about Weblogs is a nice, non-techy-oriented explanation of blogs with some RSS thrown in.