Good morning
Welcome to the SEMLS Blogging & RSS for libraries class. I'm thrilled to be able to tell you a little about blogging today and how you can use it in your libraries.
My goals for today are to:
* Tell you what a blog is and show you different types of blogs that are available.
* Show you how to create a blog in five minutes (yes, that's all it takes.)
* Look at different ways librarians are using blogs to support their services, to disseminate information, and to collaboarate with patrons/students and each other.
* Explore what RSS feeds are and how you can not only create them easily with your blog, but how you can use them to keep up with news.
I would like to hear what your interest is in blogging. Are you considering it for your library? Are you just interested in learning about the communication tools that your patrons may already be using? Do you see any barriers to using blogs in your library?
My goals for today are to:
* Tell you what a blog is and show you different types of blogs that are available.
* Show you how to create a blog in five minutes (yes, that's all it takes.)
* Look at different ways librarians are using blogs to support their services, to disseminate information, and to collaboarate with patrons/students and each other.
* Explore what RSS feeds are and how you can not only create them easily with your blog, but how you can use them to keep up with news.
I would like to hear what your interest is in blogging. Are you considering it for your library? Are you just interested in learning about the communication tools that your patrons may already be using? Do you see any barriers to using blogs in your library?
posted by Kathy Lussier at 10:39 AM
13 Comments:
I want to start a Mother Daughter Book Discussion Blog on the Wareham Library site to encourage new members to join the group and allow others unable to come to the meetings to join the discussion
Redesigning website and want to inform public of updates in library in a more timely fashion.
I am in this class so that I can set up a blog of my own. I'd really like to try this with my students.
I want to find out how I can use a blog to teach my middle school students. I'm not sure if a blog would work in a middle school, but there must be lots of ways to use one.
I have heard a lot about blogging, but don't really know what it is. Since my position requires me to work with young adults and this seems to be a popular way for them to communicate, I thought that I should become educated.
I ma here to learn th emany uses of blogging and rss in libraries.
I do a monthly newsletter, but when interesting things come up that I'd like to share with patrons, I don't want to wait!
We are hoping to start a blog in the library to get more people using our website. Also to keep our patrons up to date with programs and our construction updates.
Wanted to see how blogs can be used
We first tried a blog with our town-wide book discussion. Few people responded but it was very new for us and probably for our patrons, too. We would like to try again - with kids and summer reading this time, and ya's, too.
I just got a new position at my library and I'm going to be working on our web page and adding new things to it so I'm looking at a bunch of new things.
To try to keep up with all the teenagers who do lots of blogging; and to find any easy way to give library "hot news" to our patrons.
I want to learn how to create a blog. Hoping to use a blog so that my patrons can communicate with us through our web site.
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