Over the past few months, I’ve followed more than a dozen library blogs to develop my blogging acumen and learn about libraries. I’ve been hoping to find librarians who use blogs to unleash their curiosity and expression, demonstrate scholarship, critical thinking, library advocacy and activism, and extend the medium.
Eureka — I came into the library with the lead pipe! If you’re interested in libraries, literacy, change management, effective internet publishing and (IMHO) a glimpse of what will help save our endangered libraries, you’ll appreciate this blog. There’s so much to recommend here. The creators:
- publish a quality product (conceptually, editorially, graphically, technologically)
- exude personality without making it the ipso facto content
- use technology wisely
- write thoughtfully (and well) about stuff that really matters
My favorite articles include Kim Leeder’s commentary on the ALA’s Emerging Leaders program; Hilary Davis’s look at recessions and their impact on librarianship; and the fine analysis on calculating library ROI by Hilary and Cory Lown.
Hat’s off to this fabulous team, and thanks for energizing and inspiring a radical patron.
* Drawings of In the Library with the Lead Pipe authors by Derik Badman
