Movers and Shakers: Who Blog
I am starting to go through and clean out stacks of printed matter that I haven’t gotten to during the semester and came across my Library Journal supplement of 2008 Movers and Shakers. I decided to see which ones had blogs and have compiled the following list of bloggin’ movers and shakers (with a wiki and a web site thrown in for good measure):
Community Builders
- Peter Bromberg: http://cebuzz.wordpress.com/
http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/
Innovators
- David Lee King: http://www.davidleeking.com/
2.0 Gurus
- Christopher Harris: http://schoolof.info/infomancy/
- Evette Atkin: http://theunlibrarian.net/blog/
- Char Booth: http://infomational.wordpress.com/
- Michelle Boule: http://wanderingeyre.com/
Also contributes to: http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/
http://litablog.org/ - Tim Spalding: http://www.librarything.com/thingology/
http://www.librarything.com/blog/
Problem Solvers
- David Rothman: http://davidrothman.net/
Advocates
- Mario Ascencio: http://betweenxandy.blogspot.com/
- Alex Youngberg: http://www.cupe391.ca/blog/
- Daniel Cornwall: http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/
http://freegovinfo.info/ - Amanda McKeraghan: http://www.scrldwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page
Marketers
- Amy Buckland: http://librarystudentjournal.org/index.php/lsj
- Tony Tallent: http://yestoknow.wordpress.com/
Mentors
- Karen Brook-Reese: http://clpteens.blogspot.com/
http://myspace.com/clpteens
Complete list of Movers and Shakers by state:
This is wonderful, Jules. Thanks!
Your name will be on this list soon, I wager!
Susan
Comment by Susan Hayes — May 7, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
You always have good posts. Thanks for compiling this list for us!
Comment by Leslie Deason — May 7, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
Thanks, Jules. This looks very interesting!
Comment by Dinah Harris — May 7, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
Hi there!
Thanks for taking the time to put up these blog addresses. Very much appreciated.
Tony Tallent
Comment by Tony Tallent — May 7, 2008 @ 8:06 pm
Thanks for compiling this list. Can I add one more? The great Char Booth (http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6535081.html) who blogs at: Info-mational (http://infomational.wordpress.com/).
Comment by Peter Bromberg — May 8, 2008 @ 7:29 am
Tony — what a nice surprise to hear from one of the Movers and Shakers. And congratulations for being recognized for your leadership and “razzle dazzle” marketing of library services! Our SLIS metadata class at the University of Alabama has been blogging this semester, and it’s been a great experience discovering other blogs and bloggers and being exposed to such a variety of creative ideas.
Comment by Jules — May 8, 2008 @ 8:40 am
Peter — thanks for bringing Char’s omission to my attention. I have updated the list and added her name. Also, congratulations on being named as one of this year’s Movers and Shakers. We are a Distance Education metadata class at the University of Alabama; last semester several of us took a virtual reference class, and the 24/7 reference service (http://qandanj.org/) that the South Jersey Regional Libary Cooperative manages sounds excellent.
Comment by Jules — May 8, 2008 @ 9:07 am
Hi Jules,
Thanks for putting this list together. I’m interested to see that “Advocates” and “2.0 Gurus” seem to lead in the area of blogging. But not surprised since blogging offers us a larger soapbox!
Comment by Daniel Cornwall — May 8, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
Daniel - great to hear from you. Thanks for the interesting observation, and congratulations on being included in the 2008 Movers and Shakers! Your area of advocacy is certainly an important one, and it’s heartening to see how people like you are using methods such as blogs and social networking to effectively communicate about serious political issues.
Comment by Jules — May 8, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
Wow! Lots of bloggers on this year’s list! Thanks for taking the time to gather up the URLs.
Comment by david lee king — May 12, 2008 @ 10:04 pm