Woo-hoo, we just got our copy of Clyde's new book It's Christmas every day sitting next to the technician who processes the deliveries from YBP!

Today's delivery brought Laurel A. Clyde, Weblogs and Libraries (Rollinsford, NH: Chandos, 2004. Not in open worldcat yet). Not to come across as a stalker, but I've been linking to her presentations and papers for a while (here and here recently).

This book discusses the topic 'weblogs and libraries' from two main perspectives: weblogs as sources of information for libraries and librarians; and weblogs as tools that libraries can use to promote their services or to provide a means of communication with their clients.

No time to read this from cover to cover now, but from first browse this book looks great. Clyde carefully presents positives and negatives and gives lots of examples. Her background in teaching school librarians shows as she also mentions evaluating online information. She compares and contrasts different tools and paths in neat, easy to read tables. Ok, I'm done gushing. Just go buy it already. It's only $55 for the paperback.

Update 12/17: SC points to a review in Free Pint. I pretty much agree with the review but I'm not sure more recommendations would make the book more useful. By limiting her recommendations to just the well-established a-listers, the links are perhaps more likely to still be good in a few months.
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