Spent Friday evening at Late at the Library - an event to celebrate the opening of the British Library’s new exhibition, Taking Liberties: We take our rights for granted. Free speech. A free press. The rule of law. The power to vote in those who make the laws and spend our taxes. And the power to [...]

Poetry International has an interesting blogging experiment going on. From the card attendees found on our seats on Saturday evening (and presumably all this year’s events): This year, poets, artists, young creatives, international writers and professionals from the world of literature join us as festival bloggers in residence. They are ...

Well, the time has finally come - on Monday I had an interview for a professional librarian post and I was successful! I’m also coming very close to completion of my Diploma (I’m going away at the end of this month and my aim is to complete my final assignment before I go) so hopefully soon [...]

Preparing my paper for Elisad on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, I’m grateful to the Blogging Section of SLA-IT and resource shelf respectively for highlighting articles on how to generate and limit User Generated Content. As governmental organisations or NGOs, Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) information providers ...

I was checking my blog stats recently when I noticed that some people had entered my blog via del.icio.us (or delicious as it’s now known!). I then remembered that I still hadn’t got round to adding the ShareThis option to my blog which I had intended to do when we re-designed it.This post outlines how [...]

I’ve not been able to access the full report yet, but this strikes me from the executive summary of the latest ACRL SPEC Kit :  When asked about the impetus for implementing social software, 80% of the survey  respondents said it was a grassroots effort by individual librarians or other staff. Slightly more than half said it [...]

Thanks to Jill Hurst-Wahl at Digitization 101, I was made aware that today is Blog Day 2008. For those unfamiliar with Blog Day (and I’ll admit I was until Jill made me aware of it!), the idea is that bloggers all around the world find other interesting blogs and share them with their readers by making [...]

I have been playing around with my blog today and changing the theme, and whilst I was doing that I noticed that I started this blog on the 21st August 2007, so it has been going for more than a year! I have been somewhat sporadic at posting during that time - recently I have [...]

Blogs in general still seem to be persona non grata with some information professionals, so it’s great to see the Gazette launching a new series focusing on informative blogs. Authored by Danielle Worster, who herself blogs at (the) health informaticist [1], ‘Blog Spotlight’ “aims to help you separate the wheat from the ...

Over the summer we have been debating the issues around Academic Library Blogging which I thought I would share. I’m also hoping the post and any comments may help consolidate my ideas also as I keep changing my mind about what should be the purpose and content of our blogs! Currently we have an Electronic Resources [...]