Kara Jones discusses starting and maintaining two blogs related to her work as a research librarian. The first blog, myselfarchive.wordpress.com, reflects on institutional repositories, self-archiving, open access, and libraries. The second blog, bathsciencenews.wordpress.com, reports on visits to other repositories, good ideas seen elsewhere, technology that works for repositories, and topical issues in open access. Through blogging, Kara aims to build communities, share experiences to help others, and continue learning and developing skills to share with colleagues.