Blogging, RSS & Academic Libraries

Blogging, RSS & Academic Libraries Applications & Technology

Why Blog?
A quick , easy and affordable way to market your library’s services, interact with users, and collaborate with staff.

Finding Academic Library Blogs
Google search ‘blog university library’
Wiki of academic library blogs
Blogging libraries wiki
Library Weblogs
Blogging presentations at conferences

Types of Academic Library Blogs
Library news
Public relations
Staff communication / intranet
Special projects
Subject resources
Library instruction
Library Director blogs

Starting a Library Blog
Consider purpose & audience
Choose blogging software
Develop a blogging policy
Select a theme or template for the blog
Consider staffing issues
Post content
Market your blog

Popular Blogging Software

Enhance Your Blog
Use Flickr and LibraryThing to add photos.
Let users subscribe with Feedburner .
Allow other sites to syndicate your content .
Interact with patrons using Meebo.
Make it del.icio.us .
Include Pages – ‘Top Posts’, ‘About Us’.
Build a multi-lingual blog.

Managing Your Blog Reading List
There are so many blogs, how can you keep up?
RSS
Feedreaders, aggregators
RSS Compendium is a list with links to a variety of RSS readers categorized by different platforms:
http://allrss.com/rssreaders.html

Moving Forward with RSS
Start with a web-based aggregator like Bloglines , GoogleReader or NetVibes .
Find feeds of interest on LISFeeds, Google (subject + RSS), or an RSS search engine .
Read your aggregator daily.
Start a blog and provide feeds of your library’s news and events.

How Libraries are Using Feeds
Syndicating blog content (on Web sites – including Facebook, into online courseware, etc.).
Creating OPML packages for library patrons.
Subject guides , Podcast directories
RSS feeds from the ILS
New books feeds
Search feeds
Feeds of checked-out books and holds
RSS feeds from databases
News feeds
Search feeds
Subject bibliographies

More information on Blogging
Blogging in Academic Libraries ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Virtual Conference
Blogs and Wikis Workshop by Kate Pitcher
Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library’s Services by Darlene Fichter
10 Questions Every Blogger Should Ask Before Posting by Damien Van Vroenhoven
More information on RSS
RSS in Plain English (Video)
Bloglines for Librarians in Three (and a half) Easy Steps by Joy Weese Moll
Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries by Jat Bhatt. HigherEd BlogCon
more things you can do with RSS: 14 “Other” Ways to Use RSS , Things you can do with RSS wiki
RSS4Lib : Blog about innovative ways libraries use RSS

This presentation is available at:
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Denise O’Shea
Systems Librarian
Fairleigh Dickinson University & CoolCAT
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Credits
Blogging Readiness by cambodia4kidsorg , available at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/267060150/
Through the eye of the needle by Viejito, available at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/viejito/179747774/

Blogging, RSS & Academic Libraries

by Denise O'Shea on Apr 30, 2008

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