Christina's LIS Rant
Friday, March 12, 2004
Computers in LIbraries Report: Beyond Blogging 101: Applying reference Skills to Blogging
by Terence Huwe (description)
Huwe is the head of a special library that's affiliated with the University of California System he mostly works with researchers but also interacts with the public. I knew his name because I read his recent article: “Born to Blog.” Computers in Libraries v.23 n. 10, November/December 2003.
The main points that I took from his talk:
Huwe is the head of a special library that's affiliated with the University of California System he mostly works with researchers but also interacts with the public. I knew his name because I read his recent article: “Born to Blog.” Computers in Libraries v.23 n. 10, November/December 2003.
The main points that I took from his talk:
- use blogs as part of your overall web communications strategy for more ephemeral information and keep your portals, pathfinders, and subject guide for stable information
- use a heavy duty web authoring software like Dreamweaver to customize the template if you use off the shelf blogging software so that you can maintain your branding across all pages
- NGOs are becoming vibrant bloggers and are great for international information
- blogs are great for a very narrow systematic treament of a subject by an expert
- managing time: he suggests having multiple expert searchers scanning different feeds to update the blog
- blogs are a way to serve both the info rich and the info poor
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