Blogging for Beginners

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Blogging for Beginners

• Anne Welsh, Librarian, 18 Red Lion Court

UKIUG, 15 November 2007
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Blogging for the Non-Technical, UKIUG, May 2007
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(Picture Finding Your Life Work (1940)
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Easy Routes to RSS / Atom

• Feed generated from the catalogue
• Social bookmarking
• Blogging

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Catalogue Feeds

• Examples include
• Ann Arbor http//www.aadl.org/catalog
• Hennepin County http//www.hclib.org/pub/search/R
  SS.cfm
• Huddersfield University http//webcat.hud.ac.uk/
  
• Main advantage fully automated
• Main disadvantage bibliographic data only

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Social Bookmarking

• De.li.cious is widely used generally
• CiteUlike allows fuller records offline items
• Connotea includes publisher catalogue data

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Blogging

• Allows for a range of post-styles
• If you can word-process, you can blog
• http//annewelshwork.googlepages.com/Blogger.htm

(Picture Finding Your Life Work (1940)
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http//pupilblog.blogspot.com/
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http//www.druglink.blogspot.com/
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http//drugscope.wordpress.com/
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http//innertemplelibrary.wordpress.com/
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http//communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/catalogueand
index/default.aspx
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http//www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php
?titleWelcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki
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Anne Welsh Librarian, Chambers of David
Etherington QC Anne.Welsh_at_18rlc.co.uk