The Role of Blogs in the Library

The Role of Blogs in (the) Library : Pros & Cons Association of Special Librarians of the Philippines (ASLP) Manila International Book Fair 2006 August 31, 2006

Content Outline

Group Dynamics

Content

Of blogs and librarians

Why blogging? Why not?

Ready? Get set? Blog!

Open Forum

Group Dynamics

Get a piece of paper

Write your name

Answer the following questions:

What do you like most about being a librarian?

What do you dislike most about being a librarian?

What do you expect to “bring home” with you today?

Box of colors

Group yourselves according to color (10 colors)

Have you found your group?

Assign a facilitator, scribe & reporter

Buzz group sharing

Big group sharing

Of blogs & librarians

Blogs may be…

- Phenomenal vs. Trivial

- Empowering vs. Confusing

… the Web has become more and more important as a medium of publishing and communication…Weblogs are very much apart of the Web, and likely to follow the development path that the Web itself has taken.

- Dr. Laurel Anne Clyde

Of blogs & librarians

… a web page containing, brief, chronologically, arranged items of information (Scott, 2002)

… a website that contains brief entries arranged in reverse chronological order (Fichter, 2003)

“ The blog concept is about three things: Frequency . Brevity . Personality .”

- Evan Williams, Blogger Creator

Blograrians http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com http://filteachlibrarian.blogspot.com/ http://aczafra.com/ http://clair.free.net.ph/ http://www.baratillo.net/ http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/

Group Blogs, Lists & Directories Women Blogs & Bloggers http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/ Library Blogs & Blograrians from All Over http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html List of Law Library Blogs http://library.law.wisc.edu/wisblawg/blogslistpublic. htm Pinoy Teachers Network http://pinoyteachersnetwork.blog-city.com Pinoy Top Blogs www. pinoytopblogs .com/ http://www.yugatech.com/blogs/ http://pinoyblog.com/

Why blogging? Why not?