If you ever get a chance to go to a workshop presented by Alice, take it! She is a great speaker-very down to earth, humourous and knowledgable. Her SLSM presentation was entitled: "How blog reading can make you look brilliant" She mentioned many blogs in her presentation including Shiny Shiny , Indexed and Lifehacker . She stated that our role is "chief information officer". (Which I agree with!) Some sites she mentioned: AAA Fuel Cost Calculator Jot-it (where you can leave yourself an electronic note) Even a texting translator ! She proceeded to define what a blog is: "A website with entries in reverse chronological order with catagories." There are 3 different kinds of blogs: Personal/ point of view (covering events and impressions) Practical/purposeful (new resources/links) Philosophical/polemical (exploration/big ideas) You can use blogs to further your professional development. They provide: Instant information Hot topic in the profession Lifelong ...
School library media specialist, youth services librarian, information management resource officer... We have many titles but we are all technically librarians.