Blogs

If you'd like to author a blog for your library, contact Joy Schwarz. WALS staff will set it up for you using Movable Type software, customize it to fit in with the rest of your library's web site, and train you to post to it.

Blogs in Winnefox
- New materials lists:
- - Caestecker Public Library (Green Lake)
  - Campbellsport Public Library
  - Carter Memorial Library (Omro)
  - Coloma Public Library
  - Menasha Public Library
  - Oshkosh Public Library
  - Wautoma Public Library
- News
- - Hot Topics (Oshkosh Public Library)
  - Library Board Minutes (Green Lake Public Library)
  - Small Town Librarian (Green Lake Public Library)
- Reader's advisory:
- - Kids Lit (Menasha Public Library)
  - Listen Up! Neenah (Neenah Public Library)
  - Reader Recommendations (Oshkosh Public Library)
  - Readers Review Online (Neenah Public Library)
  - Staff Picks (Oshkosh Public Library)
- Technology:
- - AskAway @ Winnefox
  - Ides (WALS)
  - Sites and Soundbytes (Menasha Public Library)
  - Winnefox 2.0
- Internal blogs for library staff only [these are password-protected & not findable in search engines]:
- - NPL AS Blog
  - OPL RASD Notebook (Oshkosh Public Library)
  - OPL RASD Talk (Oshkosh Public Library)
  - OPL Tech (Oshkosh Public Library)
  - RPL Staff Blog (Ripon Public Library)
Notable library blogs:
- ALA TechSource
- Free Range Librarian
- Librarian.net
- Library Stuff
- LISNews
- The Shifted Librarian
- Tame the Web
- for other good library blogs, read Walt Crawford's article "Investigating the Biblioblogosphere".
Innovative uses of blogs:
- Ann Arbor District Library (Michigan)
- Waterboro Public Library (Maine)
- other blogging libraries at the Blogging Libraries Wiki

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