Thing #9: Useful Library Blogs

Finding Blogs

 

I personally like finding new blogs from the blogrolls, or blog links, on the blogs I found on Edublogs. However, Heyjude didn't have a blogroll and the MoxieLibrarian hasn't updated their blog in almost two years. So, it was back to the search engines of the blogosphere!

Entering "best librarian blogs" into the Google Blog search engine led me to The Top Fifty Librarian Blogs. Although many of the blogs are by public librarians, they still have pertinent information in the field of library science. Worth more than a glance! One of my favorite just-for-fun blogs from this post was Librarian Trading Cards.  Depicted are real librarians on a trading card (using a photo and a few words), plus an interview by the blog's host(s) of the librarian. A couple of these superheroes, I mean librarians, have their own blogs. A fun way to engage random people in the world of media specialists. Some are nominated by colleagues, which makes me wonder who I could butter up now...

Another nefarious school librarian lurks

Another randomly fun blog is by a school librarian, Judging the Books, making fun of random book covers. We've all seen a great book with a hideous cover and wondered briefly, "Who thought up that monstrosity?" Now, we can get another person's perspective. All in good fun, of course. Now, this blog unfortunately hasn't been updated since 2009! Uggghhh. I might have to take up this needy cause myself...

Another point for the new technology goddess! I love the use of the RSS button located handily on my Firefox browser for subscribing to new blogs. I had been using Internet Explorer, but considering it kept crashing on me, I finally made the switch to Firefox. So, not all of the concepts of this browser, trusty steed though it is, are familiar to me. Installing the RSS button was quite simple and now I don't have to pick a blog reader, since mine automatically defaults to iGoogle.