Library Blogs

Library Blogs
By Kaylin Boehme

Introduction
http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-history.html

Introduction

Why Blog?
Have a plan
What do you want to broadcast?
Who are you broadcasting to?
What’s the purpose of your blog?
Communication
Dialog
Making connections
Informing

“Blogworthiness”
Book reviews
Featuring new acquisitions
Promoting a theme
Post information about programs and events
General library news
Offering expertise
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Newspaper_columns_and_blogs

“Blogworthiness”
Short and sweet
Journalistic approach
500 words or less
Librarian in Black = good example
Audience effects content
Observation
Surveys

Communicating

Communicating
Post at regular intervals
Commenting
Discussion questions
Decide comment policy ahead of time
Co-authoring
http://www.librarybytes.com/2005/12/now-thats-library-blog.html

Community
Outreach – patrons and funding
Giving the library an identity and personality
Justify the library’s physical space
Newspaper columns
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Newspaper_columns_and_blogs

Links and Resources
Hyperlinks
Articles
Blog itself can be a resource
Hours, location, phone number, website URL, calendar, news, OPAC, etc.
http://www.aadl.org/

Links and Resources
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Blogs

Microblogging
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Twitter

Microblogging
Short, frequent updates
Announcements
Special events
Real-time communication
Reference service
Direct Message materials alerts
Short newsletter
networking
http://lis5313.ci.fsu.edu/wiki/index.php/Twittering_Libraries

Microblogging
Negative aspects
Missing out on the exchange
Barriers to communication
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2009/07/22/whither-blogging-and-the-library-blogosphere/

Conclusion