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Meanwhile, over at LibrariesInteract…

Recently at Libraries Interact we asked what people would like to see on the blog. How-to guides were popular, so I’ve been putting together a few posts on different topics. The first two are up now -
How to: Put your feeds on a diet
Organising and prioritising your feeds and email.
How-to: Change library sectors
Some practical tips […]

I missed my 6th blogiversary!

I missed two milestones in the past month:

The 10th anniversary of my first website
The 6th anniversary of this blog

It seems unbelievable that I’ve been blogging since 2001. Feels like a long time now. I didn’t use any software then, and there was no RSS feed. Many of the posts I added while using MovableType crashed badly at some point, […]

Social network fatigue

So while I was away ning became the latest thing, along with a sudden spike in Twitter usage amongst librarians. It could well be the usual effect of returning from a holiday and being overwhelmed by feeds and emails, but I am definitely feeling a sense of Social Network Fatigue.
There are several sites I have […]

Five non-library blogs

Rachel is interested in what non-library blogs people read. I have very few non-library blogs in my reader, as a lot of the non-library material I read are magazines or in print. Although non-library, most of these blogs relate to my job in some way.
RIN team blog: UK blog on research and scholarship models, funding […]

Communities of Research

Something I’ve been working on for some time is how authors develop communities using social software. That one is an article I intend to finish! As part of that article, about a year ago I started looking at the uses made of blogs in librarianship and other profession and came up with this list:

As a […]

NLS2006 wrapup

I’m sure I will have many things to write about NLS2006 over the coming days but to start: thank you to everyone who was involved - to the co-convenors Alyson and Adrianne, fellow committee members, Liz Baker for assisting with programme, venue staff, ALIA national office, all the sponsors, Kate Sinclair, all the speakers, and […]

Japanese library blogs

As a rookie Japanese learner, I am always on the lookout for things to read. Given that there are more Japanese-language than English-language blogs, and that there are a great number of libraries in Japan, I decided to take a look at what’s out there.
I won’t be able to read them, but I could translate with […]


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