So, I thought myself fairly knowledgeable in the area of library technology. Turns out, every aspect of library technology has its own communities, its own published body of knowledge, its own go-to gals and guys. Yes, you say, well, duh. I thought much of my experience in social media and online marketing would carry over into my new web services position, but I’m finding out that this is a wonderful new pond, with wonderful new fish.
As I learn of this stuff, so shall you, because I’m pedantic like that. I mean generous. Whatevs. Either way, I am starting a list for myself of web services-type librarians. I’m mostly concerned with blogs I should be reading, people I should be following on Twitter, and library websites I should look to for best practices. You should help me with this endeavor, because you’re a nice person, and you totally just thought of someone or something I left off the list.
Who is missing from this list? Let me know in the comments!
PS – If you’re having trouble viewing the silly embedded spreadsheet, you can view the full spreadsheet here.
PPS – Yes, I should have linked those twitter usernames. I will. Tomorrow. [DONE]
PPPS – I split the list into 2 lists.
Steve
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Viccy
David Lee King, blogs http://www.davidleeking.com/
val
thank you stephen!!! these are great additions to the list, and they’ve been added. that’s a very redundant sentence. i have a bad case of friday-brain. which i may have just made up now.
Stephen Francoeur
Jonathan Rochkind at Johns Hopkins University. Blogs at Bibliographic Wilderness. http://bibwild.wordpress.com/Dave Pattern at University of Huddersfield. Blogs at Self-plagiarism is style. http://www.daveyp.com/blog/Mita Williams at the University of Windso. Blogs at New Jack Librarian. http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/Anna Creech at the University of Richmond. Blogs at Eclectic Librairan. http://eclecticlibrarian.net/blog/Cynthia Ng at Ryerson University. Blogs at Learning LibTech. http://cynng.wordpress.com/