14. What’syourblogfor?
– 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
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?
Notas del editor
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 we’re not seeing in class and we’re 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 doesn’t 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.