We did our RSS and Blogs session for library staff yesterday. I gave it a slightly different emphasis and talked about librarians’ blogs and their usefulness as a discussion and marketing tool (in the academics’ session I talked more about academic uses and featured different blogs). 11 people told me they were coming, but 22 people showed up, and they clapped at the end of the session too (I noticed this time!). I’m still amazed at the level of interest. Australian libraries and librarians have been a little slow in adopting RSS and blogs, compared to American librarians; perhaps this is the beginning of the catch up period. Australians are often about 12-18 months behind the US when it comes to adopting new technologies in our libraries, I’ve noticed. This is strange when you consider that Aussies are usually enthusiastic early adopters of new technology.
Have to go to work a bit earlier than usual today, as M needs to carry out a “scheduled outage” of some servers at work.
Categories: librarianship, blogging, RSS