As Others See Us
Posted by Brian Kelly on May 19th, 2010
There are more library blogs about these days but what do users think about them? Now bloggers are commenting on other people’s blogs. One example is The Metablog – a Blog about Blogs which was created by a University of British Columbia library and information science student as part of their coursework. According the author ‘more specifically, it is a blog about how public libraries in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand are using blogs’. The UK blogs reviewed to date are Edinburgh City’s Tales of One City, Paige Turner – Swansea Libraries semi-official blog and the Manchester Lit List. I suspect that this blog will not be continued past the end of the course, but it’s worth a look even with just the current content as there is food for thought here – how does your blog compare?
This fits well with this blog’s previous posts on library web sites: Dull Library Web Sites, a guest post by Margaret Adolphus and Why are Library Web Sites so Dull?.
May 19th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
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May 25th, 2010 at 10:46 am
I also looked at public library blogs in UK for my MA although I am keeping my blog going in perpetuity (whatever that means these days!). I’ve bookmarked all the UK publib blogs I’ve found http://delicious.com/Public_biblioblogosphere and keep adding to it as and when I find more.
I’d be delighted to learn of more and am just on the brink of sending out my findings to all those librarians who so generously responded to my survey and requested follow-up but oin brief:
Take up of blogs specifically seems very slow but there are some lovely examples out there. The jury is still out on whether the public are getting much out of these blogs, but I suspect this weill be a slow burn but that those blogs who demonstrate conscientiousness in maintaining their blog and regularly adding relevant content will become well-used and invaluable.