Monday, February 2, 2009

Links for Librarians and Other Booky Types

I did a presentation last Friday at Homewood Public Library on blogs and promised I would post all my links on our blog, so here they are:

Best Bets for Bloggers

Presented at Public Library Division

Mid-Winter Conference

Homewood Public Library

Katie Moellering

Emmet O’Neal Library

205.445.1118

kmoellering@bham.lib.al.us

Below is a complete list of the blogs and other websites I mentioned in my section of today’s presentation. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments, and thanks for joining us today!


Top Sites for Blogs:

Wordpress: www.wordpress.org

Typepad: www.typepad.com

Blogger: www.blogger.com

Gather Your Stats!

Site Meter: www.sitemeter.com

Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics/

Feedburner: www.feedburner.com


What is RSS and why do I need it?

Check out this quick and dirty definition over at Feed 101: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/feed101

RSS Readers (so you can subscribe to ALL those blogs you want to read!)

Bloglines: www.bloglines.com

GoogleReader: www.google.com/reader

Pageflakes: www.pageflakes.com

Feedburner: www.feedburner.com

* Take a look at all of these sites before you decide which one to use, they offer some pretty neat services above and beyond blog subscription services.

Challenge Blogs:

100+ - You can find this “little” challenge here:

http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/2008/11/2009-100-reading-challenge.html

The challenge? Read 100+ books this year, and review them! This is a great way to get out there in the blogosphere and be social! It’s also a really great way to hone those writing skills J

R.I.P. – This one is a favorite of ours at Emmet O’Neal because many of us are big fans of horror writing! R.I.P. stands for Readers Imbibing Peril and is a horror fiction challenge, although the challenge rules have morphed in the past few years. You can read more about this challenge here:www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com. For THE master list of reading challenges check out this blog: http://novelchallenges.blogspot.com. The author, a self described “ravenous reader” wanted a place to go in the blogosphere to find all the reading challenges in one spot. It’s quite a list, and a lot of fun. Offering reading challenges is a fun and easy way to broaden your reading list and your blog readers at one time!

Library Blogs You Should Visit:

Public Library Blogs Wiki: http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Public_libraries

Morton Grove Public Library: http://mgplbythebook.blogspot.com/

Seattle Public Library – Shelf Talk: http://shelftalk.spl.org/

Emmet O’Neal Library - http://eolib.blogspot.com/

Gardendale Public Library – The Book Drop: http://gardendalebookdrop.blogspot.com/

Homewood Public Library: http://weknowbooks.blogspot.com/

Birmingham Public Library: http://bplolinenews.blogspot.com/

Librarians Who Blog:

The Shifted Librarian: http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/

Free Range Librarian: http://freerangelibrarian.com/

Librarian.net: www.librarian.net

Librarian In Black: http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/

Some Great RA Blogs:

Amazon Daily (it’s not just books!): http://www.amazon.com/gp/daily

Bantam Dell News: http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/news/

Book Club Girl: http://www.bookclubgirl.com/book_club_girl/atom.xml

Book Group Buzz: http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/feed/

Knopf Borzoi Reader: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/index.xml

Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: http://www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Fantasy Book Critic: http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Early Word: http://www.earlyword.com/feed/

Library Journal Pre-Pub Alerts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibraryJournal-PrepubAlerts

Potter Craft News: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/pottercraftnews/blog/index.xml

Reader’s Advisor Online Blog: http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/blog/index.php/feed/


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