Duh like you didn't already know that. What I am looking at today is blogging specifically in libraries and the higher education world.

Blogs are a great way to get information out to your users. Many public libraries are using blogs as news sites, introduce new books for readers advisory, patron events and information, etc. For example Bensenville Public Library -Readers Advisory for New Fiction is a blog guiding readers to new books. The Alexandrian Public Library - What's happening at their library, is more than just about news at the library it has general information that patrons might want to know, such as recent blog entry on voter registration and links to sites regarding the various issues.

In the academic world, libaries are using blogs to inform their patrons of news and information, but it seems the biggest explosion is in the classroom. Increasingly more and more classes are requiring their students to blog. Sometimes the blog is the professor's blog where he holds virtual class discussions. Other times it is a part of the student's actual curriculum. For example, the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism is meeting weekly with the co-founder of Wired magazine, John Batelle, and Paul Grabowicz, the school's new media program director. The students will investigate blogging as a medium for journalism.

Blogs are everywhere and it is interesting the new and innovative ways that they can be used as more than just a glorified soapbox.