Our subject blogs 4 years on
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The document discusses an academic librarian's blog and strategies for blogging. It provides suggestions for how often to post such as monthly or weekly during term time. The blog's purposes are suggested as promotion, providing resources and support, and being a one stop shop for subject information. Methods of promoting the blog mentioned include email signatures, at training events, and at the library counter. Scoop.it accounts for aggregating content are also referenced. The document ends by asking where to take the blog next and providing photo credits.
Our subject blogs 4 years on
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- 9. 安鞄霞B鉛看乙乙艶姻?
- 11. 酷庄稼糸看顎姻恢鉛看乙壊
- 13. Howoftendoyoupost? Try for monthly Not often enough - but include feed from Scoop.it and Library Thing Once a week during term time Rarely
- 14. Whatsyourblogfor? Promotion and news Resource support Push useful resources e.g. reminders about e- journals, databases etc. Library related news and bits & pieces on search skills One stop shop for subject information
- 17. Wheretonext?
- 18. Credits Blog by Christian Schnettelker on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/96913861@N04/ cc-by This Way by Lily on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/lilivanili/ cc-by 'Crowd' byJames Cridland on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/ cc-by Old Globe by Kenneth Lu on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/toasty/ cc-by Google logo render by Mark Knol on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/markknol/ by-nc-sa Dooky! Pick up the phone by Matthijs on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/matthijs/ by-nc-nd Numbers by DaveBleasdale on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/sidelong/ cc-by Compass by Walt Stoneburner on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/waltstoneburner/ cc-by Light Painting by Kevin Dooley on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/ cc-by Arrow by Amaury Henderick on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/tuinkabouter/ by-nc-nd Fonts used: Anamatic SC& Caviar Dreams available at: Font Squirrel http://www.fontsquirrel.com Questions?
Editor's Notes
- History of the blogs. Started by academic liaison librarians 2010 to provide news/info to depts.
- What has changed? Less updating, fewer posts. Time-consuming, difficult to think of content. Failed at getting people to add comments and make it a community/social resource The move from blog to subject resource
- Using blogger pages to create a website
- Mega modules How can we support them? In Blackboard- usually only at modular level. Need a subject specific hub.
- No lib guides/subject specific information on our webpages So we have a huge group of students who were not seeing in class and were not providing them with the information they need on our webpages Logging in off campus can cause difficulties and lots of enquiries at the counter FAME/Mintel assignment- info put on blog: video guides, details of drop-ins, updated messages lots of enquiries about assignment- could guide students to the blog
- Tour of the subject page
- Can turn on mobile version of blog- but doesnt show pages from the blog- problematic
- Blogger vs wordpress Tried Google sites Integrates nicely with YouTube Visibility- easier to find than on library webpages
- Beware of inaccurate blogger stats and spam sites Broadly shows big increase in views year on year Top Referring URLs
- Top referring URLS include our academic liaison profile pages
- Ask academic liaison librarians: do you still use your blog? Majority were yes. No. The work I was putting into a blog was simply reinventing what was already out there and distributed amongst the students.
- Business blog- topic- once a week.
- FAQs- either reply with blog post or create a blog post to reply Business cards at the counter to give to students esp if business librarians are unavailable
- another resource some of the liaison librarians use to create subject resources- collect and curate info on a topic
- Solving the issue of the mobile friendly version. Creating some scheduled posts for the new academic year Continue to develop the pages: useful e-books Careers page Promote! LibGuides??!
- the blogs we created in 2010 still have a purpose- turning them into hubs for subject related information fills a clear gap and helps us to reach out to students who we might normally miss.