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.
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 [...]
knowledge management and librarianship is both a blog and a series of articles contained therein. It’s an interesting set of essays complete with references. knowledge management and librarianship: Part 1 KM and LIS: part2 KM and LIS: part3 KM and LIS: part4 KM and LIS: part5
The Kitchen: How to Cook a Weblog is a two-week clinic on weblogging and related topics for webloggers and those who read webloggers and even those who don’t but still manage to use the web without stumbling all over us. The focus of the clinic is on community participation, contribution, and benefit. Today’s topic is [...]
Digital Web Magazine – Introduction to Databases is an explanation of the nature of databases in terms that non-techs can understand.
Every librarian should read these articles by drew. They offer both reasons to read and reasons to offer syndication(RSS) files. Uses of RSS RSS has already been put to a number of fascinating and imaginative uses, which will hopefully continue to grow healthily into the future. What follows is a list of some of the [...]
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.
Gary Price answers some very relevant questions on librarianship today and how we should go from here.
The October issue of The Journal of the American Library Association has several articles of interest to electronic medical librarians. And it is provided open-access through Pubmed Central
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 [...]
walking paper: A Starter OPML File for Librarians* OPML is a standard format for RSS agregators (think MARC). If you want to try feed reading, just download the file and import it into your aggregator for a ready-made set of feeds of interest to librarians.