Today I found my favourite Information Librarian blog.
Site: http://connectinglibrarian.com/
Author: Michelle McKean
After scanning lists of librarian blogs both here and overseas, I finally settled on this site to explore and follow on a regular basis. There were two main reasons for this.
1. The author is Australian (lives in Victoria actually) and interested in analysing information technology within Australian libraries and overseas. This was evident by her post on web 2.0 updates spoken about at the 2010 VALA (Victorian Association for Library Automation) Conference. In 2006 she was also granted a scholarship that then led to a study tour of virtual services in US public libraries. Her postings are therefore relevant to Information Management studies.
2. This blog is kept up to date, many others seem to have stopped posting months, even years ago which seems less useful when we are on a web 2.0 adventure.
I should also note that Michelle writes in a fluid and interesting manner that has kept me on her site for longer than intended. Already I am armed with new topics to research (including Metadata, Semantic Web and Open source) and I have linked into two recommended wikis which I will shamelessly add here for fellow RMIT bloggers:
http://readersadvisory.wetpaint.com
http://wiki.libraries.nsw.gov.au/index.php/Reference_excellence
This I think is what blogging is all about. Sharing ideas and tips on a topic that interests you and will hopefully interest others enough to find the information useful. Initially I thought that an overseas blog would be more constructive in gathering information that I would not otherwise receive. However I feel like I have so much to learn about this profession in Australia that local is a good place to start and my RSS feeds and further reading will no doubt encompass the wider world.
By the way, a blog according to the Oxford Dictionaries' web site (2010) originates from web log - and I cannot believe that I never knew that.
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