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Libraries and weblogs: The Role of new phenomenon Blogs in library services, research and learning.

Libraries and weblogs: The Role of new phenomenon Blogs in library services, research and learning. Tahereh Karami Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Iran tkarami@gmail.com Tahereh Oloumi Tehran University, Iran tahere_oloumi@yahoo.com. Overview. What are blogs? Blog/ Weblog is

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Libraries and weblogs: The Role of new phenomenon Blogs in library services, research and learning.

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  1. Libraries and weblogs: The Role of new phenomenon Blogs in library services, research and learning. Tahereh Karami Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Iran tkarami@gmail.com Tahereh Oloumi Tehran University, Iran tahere_oloumi@yahoo.com

  2. Overview What are blogs? Blog/ Weblog is • A web page containing brief entries arranged chronologically • An online community , ‘What’s New’ page or links to other web sites, • That are built using specially designed software

  3. From the viewpoint of the user or visitor A blog is a Web site with: • Content arranged as entries of text and hyperlinks, posted in reverse chronological order, • A timestamp for each entry so the reader knows when it was posted, • And an archive of previously posted content that can be easily accessed by visitors

  4. Library weblogs: professional literature Blogs with an emphasis on library and information science • Crawford, 2001 • Fichter ,2001 • Clyde, 2002a, 2002b and 2003 • Cohen, 2003

  5. Library weblogs: professional literature The potential of weblogs in libraries • Block (2001) • Embrey (2002) • Balas (2003) • Carver (2003) • Doug Goans and Teri Vogel (2003) • Bar-llan (2004) • Blair and Cranston (2006)

  6. Library weblogs: professional literature weblogs in knowledge management • Fichter (2003) • Roell (2003) • Alcock (2003) • Ojala (2005)

  7. Library weblogs: professional literature RSS and its use in libraries • Wusteman (2004) • Winsh (2004) • Miller (2004) • Jacobs (2004) • Celikbas (2004)

  8. Weblogs in libraries • Blogs are a natural for librarians Paula J. Hane (2001) • A weblog could be used as a tool for communication with library users Blinda weaver (2003) • A weblog could be used as a tool for communication with library users

  9. How libraries can utilize weblogs for their profession? blogs applications in libraries • as a current awareness service; • to highlight news or resources of interest; • to post book reviews from students, faculty, and staff members; • to list new acquisitions; • to announce library news and events • for selective dissemination of information

  10. Blog is easy for librarians A Blog is: • Web-based forms • Easy to create • Easy to publish • Does not need to know HTML

  11. How libraries are using Blogs? Blogs as a • library newsletter • Reference Desk • New Acquisitions • libraries consortia • marketing tools in libraries

  12. and library BlogResearch • Communicating information about resources • Starting conversations about books and literacy • Use Weblogs as digital portfolios (by Students) • Use blogs as classroom portals (by Teachers) • Identify, organize, and make information accessible (In school libraries) • Encourage students to access the Internet for useful information (by Educators)

  13. The relevance of blogging to libraries • weblogs are an excellent way to stay current • Librarians are great filters of information • Weblogs are ideal for disseminating all types of information • Weblogs are ideal for commenting, expressing opinions and • Weblogs are ideal for discussing implications • And to provide local information

  14. Library Blogs purposes Libraries can use Blog to: • Provide up-to-date information on local events, • Provide library news, • Provide announcements of new library acquisitions, • promoting the services Contact with users • Information provision • Marketing of services • knowledge management

  15. Number of library Blogs Table1: Number of library weblogs between 2003-2005

  16. Syndicate your content: RSS What is RSS? RSS is a simple XML syntax for describing a channel or feed of recent additions to a webpage such as weblogs, and usually showby these icons:

  17. Two ways to manage RSS • use a feedreader : fine to only one or two blogs; IE6 will enable RSS feeds on the desk top • use an aggregator : to manage feeds such as: RSSFeeds.com (www.rssfeeds.com) Syndic8 (www.syndic8.com) NewsIsFree (www.newsisfree.com) Lisfeeds.com (www.lisfeeds.com)

  18. RSS in Libraries Here are some RSS utilizations in libraries that have been introduced by Celikbas: • Activities, Event Announcements,... • Book Lists • Current Awareness Service

  19. Conclusion Blogging could be an efficient and effective alternative for information and knowledge transfer, resulting in a more productive workforcein libraries.

  20. Thank you! Tahereh Karami Faculty of the School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Researches Library, Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Iran tkarami@gmail.com Dr. Tahereh Oloumi Associate Professor, Department of Library Science, School of Psychology and Education, Tehran University, Iran tahere_oloumi@yahoo.com

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