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corporate blogs & institutional blogging guildelines

Steven – Library Stuff – Cohen has an article in b/ITE called Corporate Library Blogs. Here’s a tidbit that addresses something that’s been on my mind lately: rules should be put forth about what can and cannot be published on the weblog, as having this set up beforehand can resolve any issues that may arise [...]


i missed this, maybe you did too

An article that presents some cogent arguments for the archiving of blogs: Blog Today, Gone Tomorrow? Preservation of Weblogs, by Richard Entlich, published in the August issue of RLG DigiNews. In somewhat related news, I recently selected a contact person on the RLG Web site (somewhat randomly) and sent him an e-mail message asking (and [...]


rss article

A good & lenghty article called What is RSS and how can it serve libraries? [pdf]. I was particularly interested in the bit about RSS augmenting reference services: The importance of search engines could not be underestimated, especially for reference librarians and their potential clients. XmlHub (http://www.xmlhub.com), an Open Directory custom RSS-feed generator, recently unveiled [...]


good OCLC reporting

Just put down OCLC’s report Content, Not Containers (pdf here). It’s a really good look at the changing information landscape, particularly the way information is no longer dependent upon the format of delivery, and how this is something that should be on the radar of every library and librarian. This passage called RSS to mind: [...]


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27 Apr 2004

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monthly column on blogs

Here’s one I just discovered: a monthly column on blogs called Blogorama in the Internet Resources Newsletter. Scanning back a couple of issues, it looks like they spotlight various library blogs, blog/RSS tools, and articles on blogging in the library world. I just might be the last person to discover this.




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