Librarian By Day Blog

Week 3: Select a Blog

After reviewing many library blogs, I selected one named Librarian by Day written by Bobbie Newman. Here is the link to her blog: http://librarianbyday.net/

 To begin with, it was the title of this blog that piqued my interest. I liked the layout of this blog, it appealed to me visually as it had a clean back ground with it articles broken into sections. Since we just learned how to create word bubbles last week, the word bubble posted on this blog on January 23rd about an end to Library Day in the Life Project caught my eye. I began exploring the content on this blog and found that it covered a wide variety of topics that interested me, such as social tools, web 2.0, social networking sites, library learning 2.0 to name a few.

Here are the rest of the links available on this blog: A Day in the Life of a Librarian, ALA, ALA 2010, ALA Annual 2009, Awards and Accolades., Best Practices, Blogging, Books – Read This!, Change, Chit Chat, cil2009., Computers in Libraries 2010, Conference Tips, Conferences, Customer Service, Digital Divide., Digital Literacy, Digital Services, eBooks, Echo Chamber, Facebook, Feedback, Flickr, Free Tools, Fun, Funding, Future of Books, Gaming, Google, ICoLIS08, Information Access, Information Management, Innovation, Internet Librarian, Interviews, Guest Posts & Articles, Learning, Learning 2.0, Lessons Learned, Librarians, Librarianship, Libraries, Library Camp Kansas, Library Learning 2.0, Library Learning 2.1, Library Staff, Life, Links, Managers, Marketing, MLA 2008, Mobius 2008, MRRLm, Myspace, News, OITP (Office of Information Technology Policy), Older Adults, Patron Satisfaction, Patron Services, Podcasting, Policies, Poll, Polls, Presentations, Privacy, Questions, Read This, Reputation, Self Improvement, Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Social Tools, Technology, Thinking Outloud, Time Management, Tips, Training, Transliteracy, Twitter, UKSG 2008, Unconferences, Video, Visual, Web 2.0, Worst Practices, YouTube.


 Here is a little bit of information about the author of Librarian By Day: Bobbi Newman, aka, Librarian by Day, is a blogger, a Tweeter and an international public speaker. Bobbi is an ALA Councilor-at-Large, a member of the OITP Advisory Committee, and a serves on the advisory board for the Pew Internet & American Life research on Libraries in the Digital Age. Bobbi is the author of the award winning blog, Librarian by Day and in 2011 was named a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal. Her writing is regularly highlighted by American Libraries Direct. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, The Guardian, BlogHer, O’Reilly Radar, The L.A. Times, Mental Floss and GigaOm , and was once used by Facebook in a smear campaign against Google. When she’s not obsessing about digital literacy she probably obsessing about shoes. Her noteworthy projects and accomplishments include founding and coordinating the semi-annual Library Day in the Life Project. Bobbi co-founded and launched the award winning, This Is What a Librarian Looks like in February of 2012. Bobbi co-founded and wrote for the award winning Libraries and Transliteracy Project. http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbinewman.


I think the main characteristics that make a library blog successful are: • It relates well to its audience • It’s not too wordy • It’s posts are current • It spurs activity, aka it is engaging and readers ask questions and leave comments • Its set up has visual appeal for the reader • It includes photos, and videos • It creates a relationships with its audience