Friday, June 24, 2005

Blogs as Instructional Tools in Libraries - A Survey

Library Stuff mention librarians Lani Draper & Priscilla Coulter who are conducting a blog survey:
"The purpose of this survey is to find out how librarians are using weblogs (blogs) to interact with and teach library users. The results will be presented at the Off-Campus Library Services Conference in Savannah, GA in April 2006. Your participation is greatly appreciated."
(link via Digital Divide)

If you are using a blog to interact with your users I highly encourage you to take part in the survey. It would be interested to get some medical library bloggers in the mix.

**Warning Shameless Plug**
I recently just submitted an article to the Journal of Hospital Librarianship, "The Use of Blogs in Medical Libraries" and it is scheduled to be published in Vol 6 No 1 beginning of 2006.

The article looks at how medial libraries/librarians are using blogs to inform their users (other librarians or patrons). While researching this paper I was surprised to discover that there are very few medical libraries who are using blogs for more than just a news alert on their web page. There are a lot of untapped areas where medical library blogs could be used including but not limited to: replacing the reference desk binder and medical student's PBL instruction.

You are bounded only by your imagination. I will be interesting to see the Draper and Coulter's survey results, because maybe we can get some ideas from it.

1 Comments:

At 7:53 AM, obsto said...

Dear Krafty, I would very much like to read a open access version of your article. I'm too curious to wait til 2006! Regards, Oliver

 

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