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 [...]

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 collaboration. [...]

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 current [...]

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.

It all seems to have started with Fixing the First Job and snowballed from there. In the last few days there have been several posts about the plight of new librarians as they head out into the professional world. For those who like me have gotten lost without a scorecard I’ve compiled the list below [...]

“A Communications Handbook for Libraries” will help libraries preserve and promote their programs-while dealing with the challenges of the USA PATRIOT Act and seemingly endless budget cuts.ALA | Free online handbook will help libraries get the word out
This looks to be a great resource, unfortunately, it’s only available in pdf.

LibraryTechtonics: Librarian/information professional temp agencies

Via an email list, a list of open-access, peer-reviewed and indexed library journals.

Information Research
Library Philosophy and Practice
LIBRES Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal

Seven Reasons Why Businesses Should Blog Now
The list could have also been called “Why Your Library Should Blog Now”. Actually, since libraries are businesses too (sometimes we forget that), the list should apply to libraries…
Library Stuff

Read the comments for an interesting point from Walt Crawford. He reminds us that libraries are “commons” organizations. Steven [...]

Sony — which recently added MP3 support to its walkman devices — has abandoned publishing music on DRM-laden CDs. They say that it’s because of an “increase in awareness by music consumers,”
…they mean that their customers have grown aware of what abad [sic] deal these DRM discs are and don’t want them anymore. IOW, we [...]

Yahoo! News – Court strikes down Patriot Act provision

Boing Boing: ACLU and EFF strike down part of PATRIOT Act

librarian.net : gag orders unconstitutional says federal court. duh, says jessamyn.

…or why you should look at your referrers once in a while.
I’ve been blogrolled(!) by lbr(a blog about virtual reference for librarians by request) and browsing through the entries I found “To chat or not to chat”.
Anyone who’s participated in an online community for long knows that certain topics tend to come up [...]

The recent growth in information technology has helped push salaries for law librarians at major firms up by nearly a third, according to a new survey.
The expansion of knowledge management systems and techniques has also moved law librarians towards the top in their firms, as their research and associated skills have grown in importance [...]

…Viet Dinh (G-town law prof, former AA General for Bush, author of the USA Patriot Act, and poster boy for conservative causes…). Viet made a comment at one point that I think you would like — he said what he had learned from the response to the Patriot Act was ‘Don’t mess with librarians.’”
librarian.net

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The American Institute for Health Education (AIHE) is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to put “medical research articles into the hands of patients and their families.” AIHE will provide citations by email or full-text photocopies by snail mail. Clients with access to a good research library –or a lode of OA literature– might only [...]

LLRX — Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services offers a great overview of RSS feeds for information filtering with examples of libraries who have implemented them for news updates.
Gerry also goes into other types of information that could benefit by broadened dissemination like new book/cd/etc. lists, subject-specific information, and general [...]