Blog & RSS Resources
General Resources
Casey, Michael E. and Laura C. Savastinuk. Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Services. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2007
Farkas, Meredith G. Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2007.
Kroski, Ellyssa. Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals. NY: Neal-Schuman, 2007.
Stephens, Michael. Web 2.0 & Libraries, Part 2: Trends and Technologies. Chicago: ALA Techsource, 2007.
Stephens, Michael. Web 2.0 and Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software. Chicago: ALA Techsource, 2006.
Blog Resources
Fichter, Darlene. “Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library’s Services,” in MLS: Marketing Library Services. Info Today, October 30, 2007.
Fichter, Darlene and H. Frank Cervone. “Blogs and RSS,” in Technology for the Rest of Us. N. Courtney, editor.
Hillan, Julie. “Physician Use of Patient-Centered Weblogs and Online Journals,” Clinical Medicine & Research 1, no.4 (2003): 333-335.
How Blogs Work from HowStuffWorks.com.
Kennedy, Robert S. “Weblogs, Social Software, and New Interactivity on the Web,” Psychiatric Services 55, no. 3 (March 2004): 247-249.
Kraft, Michelle A. “The Use of Blogs in Medical Libraries,” Journal of Hospital Librarianship 6, no. 1 (2006): 1-13.
Rominger, Lynne. Extraordinary Blogs and E-zines. NY: Franklin Watts, 2006.
Sauers, Michael P. Blogging and RSS: A Librarian’s Guide.
RSS Resources
Cooke, Carole A.“Current Awareness in the New Millennium: RSS,” Medical Reference Services Quarterly 25, no.1 (2006): 59-69.
Daily, Geoff. “Aggregating the Aggregators: RSS Reader Round-Up,” EContent 28, no.4 (April 2005): 36-41.
RSS Specifications: Everything You Need to Know about RSS.
Wusterman, Judith. “RSS: The Latest Feed,” Library Hi Tech 22, no. 4 (2004): 404-13.
Yue, Paoshan and Araby Greene. “Do You See RSS in Your Future?” Serials Librarian 50, no.3/4: 305-10.
Be sure and check out SOLINET’s Blog and RSS Workshop.
