She's a long time teacher, first time librarian,and has caught on to the great resources that can been found through blogs. She decided she might as well give it a go.
My job was to help her set up her blog - "The Learning Librarian". Blogger is the platform of choice, simply because that's what I stumbled upon a few years ago, and I've got a vague idea of how to make it work.
So, we try http://learninglibrarian.blogspot.com.
Taken.
That's fine. http://thelearninglibrarian.blogspot.com.
No problem, lets try some more.
We did. A lot more. So many, in fact, that I was inspired to make a list....and I was interested enough to look at what each blog contained.
The following are all .blogspot.com URLs.
Librarylearning, last post 2002
learninglibrary, no posts
thelearninglibrary, last post Jan 2009
thelearninglibrarian, no posts
learninglibrarian, last post Jan 2006
librarianlearning, last post January 2007
librarydiscovery, last post 2007
libraryliteracy, active!
Library, no posts
library101, no posts
new library, last post 2005
libraryjourney, 2007
thelibraryjourney, no posts
librariansjourney, 2009
thelibrariansjourney, AVAILABLE
shhh, last post 2001
Thisisalibrary, AVAILABLE
thelibrarianisin, last post 2009
quietplease, no posts
I know that domain squatting is no new thing. But this is different, and while this is obviously a very small data sample, it shows that good intention doesn't often result in meaningful output. The "start a blog, everyone's doing it" philosophy doesn't always lead to piles of useful information - even in the hands of a studious bunch of librarians (I know, I know).
On the positive side, It's made me think of this modest little blog as something of a success!
I do wonder whether sites like Blogger are going to need to wipe the slate clean at some point....I can only imagine the fun that will be....cleaning out our 2 year old file severs is a scary enough task.
For the record, Tracey finally went with http://traceythelibrarian.blogspot.com
I'm sure it will be jam packed full of great ideas in no time.
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