The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.
WordPress is one of, if not the most, popular pieces of software for blogging and managing websites, mostly because of the ease of installation. But customizing it can be a difficult and technical process. Annotum is a WordPress theme built for publishing research papers. It has all of the functionality built-in for multiple authors to [...]
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 ourselves. [...]
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 [...]
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.