LibraryLinks Spring 2005
Librarians Are Blogging
By Erin Rushton
If
you’ve been to the Science
Library web page recently, you may have noticed something new: a blog.
The Libraries launched two blogs in January 2005; one is an updated version
of “Library News
and Features” and is accessible via the Libraries’ home page. The Science
Library Blog is collaboratively maintained and updated by reference librarians
Beth Brown, Alesia McManus and Erin Rushton.
The librarians typically use the blog to keep students and faculty updated about library news, including recent book acquisitions, changes to journal subscriptions and new electronic resources. The librarians also use the blog to highlight science news stories and developments in scholarly research.
Students and faculty can use an RSS feed to subscribe to the latest blog postings. By subscribing to the blog via a website such as Bloglines, individuals have the regularly updated content delivered to their RSS readers or aggregators. This saves the individual time from having to check for new information themselves.
To subscribe to the Science Library blog, go to http://library. lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/ and click on the orange XML button to get the URL for the RSS feed. For more information on subscribing to feeds using an RSS reader or news aggregator, see http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/feeds.html.
You can also subscribe to “Library News and Features” at http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/librarynews/.
As members of one of the first departments on campus to blog, librarians are excited to share their experiences with the campus community. If you want to find out more about blogging (or are still confused about what a blog is) please contact Erin Rushton via e-mail or at 777-2706.