How to Bag a Blog

Now that South Carolina librarians have completed the first TechTracks sessions on Blogging, we anticipate a new flowering of S.C. library weblogs well before winter is over.   We’ll link to new blogs here on LibraryTrax, so send us your blog names!

As blogs proliferate it gets harder to find that one blog you read one time on that one crucial topic.   A solution:  LISZEN, a new search engine that indexes more than 500 library blogs.

Other ways to bag a blog by librarians about real-library issues:

• The Blogging Libraries Wiki - Be sure to add your library blog to this list.
• There’s a good list of library blogs at the Internet Public Library. 
• And the most comprehensive directory to library blogs, LibDex - Puts the feeds right up front, so you can bag ’em for your Bloglines account!

 

TechTracks Blogging–Impressions of the first classes

Good morning, all!

Our first blogging classes, the first in our series of L2 classes called TechTracks, were a rip-roaring success. We gathered on Thursday in Greenville, SC with almost 30 public library folks and discussed Bloglines, Blogger, WordPress, and the benefits of blogging for libraries. The evaluations were good, but even better, I logged into our blog this morning and found that several people from the classes had linked to our blog from their own.  How exciting!!

If enthusiasm is any indication of future success, I think we’ll be seeing the birth of many new blogs from SC libraries.   We’ve asked that our new bloggers send us links to their work.  We’ll post them here on a new page called “SC Library Blogs.”  Keep visiting this list, and watch it grow.
Library 2.0….here we come!

Felicia

 

Blogging Class Information For Greenville County Public Library

If you are registered for either of the two Blogging classes at the Greenville County Public Library, please find the following information usefull in preparing for the class.

If you have any questions please contact me at:

Julie Boller

(803) 734-6061

jboller@statelibrary.sc.gov

 

*Basic computer and mouse skills are required to keep the pace of this class*

WHAT TO BRING:

-Pen or Pencil

-Notebook or scrap paper for notes

-Username and password for a remotely accessible email account (i.e. Yahoo, Gmail, MSN or other). You will need to be able to login in order to activate a new Blogger account. If you do not currently have one, please sign up for a free web-based account (as mentioned above) prior to the class.

-Lunch is not provided.

HOW TO GET THERE:

Facility:
Greenville County Library, Computer Training Room
25 Heritage Green Place
Greenville, SC 29601-2034 Phone:

(864) 242-5000

Driving Directions:

Computer training lab. Parking $4.00 per day.

Click here for a map to the Hughes Main Library of the Greenville County Library System.