so, just how many libraries are blogging anyway?

While doing some maintenance work on the blogrolls that keep the lists on this site organized, I stopped to do a little analysis and number crunching, and thought I’d share the results here. For those of you who have recently found yourselves wondering just how many libraries are blogging these days, you might enjoy having a glance over these numbers.

While I don’t pretend that these lists are exhaustive, I’d like to think that they provide the most up-to-date info on the library-blogging situation (i.e.: institutional blogs). That said, and per my calculations, there are currently 245 libraries blogging. Of these 245,

• 107 are academic libraries
• 86 are public libraries (at least 15 of which have multiple blogs)
• 12 are school libraries
• 12 are assorted special libraries
• 11 are library associations (state/national/provincial, etc.)
• 8 are library consortia
• 6 are government libraries
• 3 are corporate libraries

An interesting exercise, in all, but mostly one that made me realize just how incomplete these lists really are! (there have to be more public libraries blogging! And whither the corporate library blog? I know you’re out there!). So, if your library is blogging and you’re not on the list, pipe up!

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Bibliothèques qui bloguent

Vous voulez la liste de toutes les bibliothèques disposant d’un blog de par le monde ? Et le tout classé selon le type de bibliothèque (publique, universitaire, etc.) ? C’est possible, et c’est ici.Si la vôtre n’y figure pas, vous

Don’t forget the Library System Suppliers who are blogging…….

http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/

http://alicebakerblog.typepad.com/alicebakerblog/

News and views from a small library–Alice Baker Library, Eagle, WI

Hey, great info! Do you have the website of the 3 corporate libraries blogging? Thanks!

our corporate library is blogging, albeit internally, that is not for public consumption. we are trialling the blogs as an information dissemination tool only. have yet to consider collaboration and commenting as we may step on KM toes within the organisation! interested to hear about what other corporate libraries are doing with blogs!

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[...] En España seguimos a años luz de EEUU, respecto a la situación en materia bibliotecas y servicios de información y documentación. A falta de un estudio en profundidadque determine el uso de los blogs en los centros bibliotecarios de nuestro país y de los organismos culturales (bibliotecas, archivos, museos, etc) que poseen ya su propia bitácora, en Norte América en el 2005 contaban ya con 245 bibliotecas blogueando: [...]

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