Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Librarians Blogging about Technology

Jenny Levine has been writing about technology and libraries for over a decade and is definitely the one to look to when it comes to blogs and their applications in librarianship. She recently co-led a pre-conference workshop with Michael Stephens titled Rev Up Your Online Services: Blogs, RSS, Wikis and other Dynamic and Low-cost Technologies at the 2006 Washington Library Association Conference.

Doug Johnson authors this blog focusing on technology and its application in the classroom. He's a humorous and thoughtful read, so tune in :)

Meredith Farkas is the Distance Learning Librarian at Norwich University. In 2006 she was named a “Mover & Shaker” by Library Journal. She discusses a variety of new technologies including the use of wikis, blogs, and social software in libraries.

School librarian Joyce Valenza describes her blog as "a discussion of information fluency, searching, teaching, and learning in the 21st century."

Chris Harris, head of a school library system, has a background in elementary teaching and instructional technology and is working toward a MLS degree. It's not surprising that he sees lots of interesting overlap in all these areas!

posted by Sara Seely at 3:59 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello Folks: I attended part of your WLA presentation Saturday morning. I had read an ACRL article on blogging and university libraries, and I decided to be more up to date in my community college library, so I started a blog there. I have found that ! students think it is great but don't view it much.
It does seem similar to some of the features of Blackboard or Angel, but with a much easier learning curve.
Andrea Gillaspy-Steinhilper, Lower Columbia College. check out lcclib101.blogspot.com.

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