j’s scratchpad

Steven Cohen is working on a meme about 10-15 sources librarians read and encouraging us to post them in usable formats, like with OPML. He lists his recommendations, which, he notes, could change at any point in time.

I am surprised that I am only familiar with four of the ten sources he lists and even more surprised that one of them is the scratchpad. I feel so much pressure to write something intelligent now. ; )

What would my recommendations be? Picking ten or fifteen from the more than 100 sources on my subscription list is a challenge. I find that I don’t read everything every day, but instead, check in with some sources once a week or more periodically. There’s also a difference between what I read for pleasure and what I read for professional development. Of course, that’s all been on hold while waiting for my laptop repairs. If my aggregator is intact when I get the machine back, I think I’m going to end up testing its and my limits with the amount of unread stuff it might pull down from the last three weeks.

In no particular order, I might start catching up with this professional development reading first:

• ResourceShelf

• LISNews
• beSpacific
• gapingvoid
• Unshelved (who will be in Boston between March 22 and 24 for the Public Libraries Association conference!!!)
• Library Stuff
• Portals and KM
• the playful antiquarian
• RSS4Lib
• Garrett’s Rowland Institute at Harvard Library Blog
• Christina’s LIS Rant
• Shimonolog
• Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Steven names some tools to use to create OPML versions of reading lists. Maybe when my laptop returns, I can play with them.

Don’t forget I now have a public Bloglines account so you can read some of what I subscribe to. (Speaking of Bloglines, Amy tells me the scratchpad’s feed isn’t updating over there. Anyone else having new problems reading this feed? I can’t control my feed or how Bloglines reads it, so we might just have to be patient.)

Thanks, Rich, for pointing me to Steven’s post.

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