Librarians at GSU Write About Their Decision to Blog
One of my blog readers just sent me the URL to this Information Today article written by librarians at Georgia State University’s Pullen Library who decided to implement a weblog on the library’s Web site.
“Despite the mainstream media coverage in places like Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and articles in the library literature that advocate and promote the use of blogging in libraries, few libraries are actually doing so. … Some personal blogs contain links to employers, but we rarely find clear integration between a library’s Web presence and the blogs of its employees. For our project, we envisioned an official organizational blog to publicize librarywide news and events, with a hierarchy of integrated topical “sub-blogs” managed by smaller groups of librarians.”
The article covers why they decided to use Weblog technology, how they evaluated systems, and the decision to buy, rent, or build their own blog technology, as well as resources for more information.
