2. The Conventional Wisdom… Initiate conversations with your patrons Promote library materials, resources, and services Focus specifically on one kind of patron or service Give library staff a voice Reach out to untapped patron audiences via new technologies
3. But why blog @ CLP? Initiative 2.3: Enhance library tools to enhance and disseminate information virtually, anytime, anywhere. Initiative 6.1: Evaluate appropriateness of new technologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of library tools to access information.
4. How We Did It Surveyed library literature and library blogs Called for volunteers / convened planning committee Wrote objectives Held 3 additional planning meetings “Just did it”!
5. Library Literature: LTR Web 2.0 and Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software . “Chapter 2: Blogs.” http://www.alatechsource.org/ltr/web-20-and-libraries-best-practices-for-social-software Available in print: http://catalog.einetwork.net/search/i?SEARCH=0024-2586&searchscope=1 Or via EBSCOHOST
6. Library Literature: Other Sources The Blogging Libraries Wiki http://tinyurl.com/pvzvp Library Blogging (Coombs & Griffey 2008) http://catalog.einetwork.net/search/i?SEARCH=+9781586833312++&searchscope=1 Blogging and RSS (Sauers 2006) http://catalog.einetwork.net/search/i?SEARCH=9781573872683&searchscope=1 Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals (Kroski 2008) http://catalog.einetwork.net/search/i?SEARCH=9781555706142&searchscope=1 Social Software in Libraries (Farkas 2007)—Chapter 2: Blogs http://www.sociallibraries.com/links/chapter-2/
