Librarian Bloggers 1

The followings are some of the recommended library technology blogs from my Document Management course. I saw a few familiar names. There are a few which I have them on my Twitter since last year, such as, Michael Stephens and Lorcan Dempsey. I am that kind of person who loves organising things. So, I visited all the recommended sites, picked up a few details from there and re-organised them. The lists I put here are those that I think it will benefit for other new librarians who are looking for some good blogs to read and know about librarianship. For my planning, I will continue to use this blog in the future to record my librarianship.

And noted that my title is Librarian Bloggers 1, which means, I have Librarian Bloggers 2 and so on to post in few days time. Not to forget, my favourite: The Unquiet Librarian and Musing About Librarianship.

Here are the lists:

American Librarian bloggers:

1. The Freerange Librarian - Author:K.G. Schneider (Director of the Cushing Library at Holy Names University, California.), blog about librarianship and writing.


2. Tame the Web - Author:Michael Stephens (Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University, Illinois), blog about libraries, technology and people


3. Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog - Vice President of OCLC, blog about library logistics, collaborative sourcing, collective collection, evolving metadata and bibliographic practices, web 2.0 and library organisation.


4. iLirarian - Author: Ellyssa Kroski (Information Services Technologist at Barnard College, writer, educator, and international conference speaker), blog about technology and library.


5. LibrarianInBlack - Author: Sarah Houghton-Jan (Digital Futures Manager of the San Jose Public Library), blog about librarianship, technology and web services.


6. LibraryBytes - Author: Helene Blowers (Director of Digital Strategy for the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Keynote Presenter & Consultant), blog about libraries and learning 2.0.


7. Information Wants To Be Free - Author: Meredith Farkas(Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Vermont), blog about librarianship and technology usage in day to day library.

Canadian Librarian:

1. Stephen's Lighthouse - Author: Stephen Abram. Blog about library industry trends, innovation and information.

(p.s. I was surprised!!! Where are Australian librarian bloggers??? Hello??)

My highly recommended librarian blog to read

Woo!! Just realised that the title is too long. But it said what this post is about.

I have been following The Unquiet Librarian blog for nearly a year. She has just been nominated as the best librarian blog in USA. Her blog is very informative, inspiring and useful. Her name is Buffy Hamilton with the blog URL: http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/. She is a media specialist/teacher-librarian at Creekview High School in Georgia. She has a master's degree of English Education and her Education Specialist is in School Library Media/Instructional Technology. She updates her posts on average three to four posts per week.

She uses her blog as a place to reflect her reading on other professional librarians' posts and prompts discussion on the issues raised. She embeds many links, slide shows and YouTune videos to introduce new social media and web 2.0 applications for her readers.

Here are some of the categories of topic that she posted:
- innovative changes to library
- web based software application and database (e.g. how to use current web based software to help her dealing with media course planning, presentation and library marketing.)
- library marketing and promotion
- library vision, mission and goals
- library space, shelving
- reflections on Conferences and articles, other bloggers' posts

I love her posts so much. Some of the applications that she used are very attractive and I just need some time to sit down and really dig into them. I am sure they are useful for my future career as an information profession.

Try it!!