Monday, February 18, 2008

Public library blogs

Technorati -
I expected it would be initially easier to find blogs about libraries, but found lots of rubbish. Using the search field with "public library blogs" as a term, I found some public library blog videos:
http://www.technorati.com/videos/tag/public+library+blogs
This led me to the "Plain Talk" blog of Des Plaines Public Library which started with an artcile about librarian myths. While this is interesting and amusing, and sorry to harp on this topic, but these people must have plenty of time on their hands to keep the blog up to date and keep it interesting.
I looked at several other blogs, see below:

http://inn0vate.blogspot.com/2008/02/open-access-collections.html

Rambling with a Librarian

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Ivan Chew's inspiring classroom lecture Ivan noticed the symetry to the thing before I did ... . It was during a tour of the Jurang Public Library where he worked at the time. I told ... , the Rambling Librarian.

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I can't see myself spending time doing this in the future. I've done this searching in my own time at home - impossible at work. Most of what I have read on the blogs, I don't need to know - too much garbage for the brain. How about the Slow Movement?? darn - I just looked at their site and they have a forum - but much calmer looking than any of the blogs.
At home I'd rather be walking the dog, walking alone, gardening, reading, cooking, talking to friends on the phone, visiting my daughter, watching movies, going OUT- shall I go on?
At work I am on the reference desk more than half the week, process interlibrary loans, make signs, remove signs, help other staff, shelve books, answer phones, prepare new brochures ...keep the wiki up to date (the one I made at home because there's no time at work) -
Give me a room alone in the library, a computer and a day a week to do all this and I'll be laughing!
Despite all this, I have been actually enjoying doing the training and I think it's important to know about it all, even if I choose not to spend my time this way.

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