ATG Blog Network

A list of blogs, websites and online directories that we find useful and/or interesting.  If you would like to suggest a site that should be added, please send it to Tom Gilson, gilsont@cofc.edu.

ACRLog
Collaboration
Guest commentaries, contributed conference reports, perspectives from ACRL chapters, and opinions about the latest trends and issues are shared by and for academic and research librarians.

ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Blog

Reinvigorated this year by Megan Oakleaf and others, this blog now offers one or two new posts a week.  Megan recommends that if your new to the blog to “check out the older posts…there’s great stuff there.”  There is also a link to submit info about library value projects you may be working on…and we’ll be selecting projects from those submitted to highlight on the blog.

AL Direct
AL Direct is an electronic newsletter sent every Wednesday to personal members of the American Library Association and others who wish to subscribe. It is a weekly supplement to American Libraries magazine that provides summaries and links to news, announcements, and other information of interest to library and information science professionals.

alatechsource.org
ALA TechSource is a unit of the publishing department of the American Library Association. ALA TechSource publishes Library Technology Reports, Smart Libraries Newsletter (formerlyLibrary Systems Newsletter), and the ALA TechSource Blog.

The Charleston Advisor
Critical Review of Web Product for Information Professionals

Charleston Advisor Latest Issue RSS Feed

The Charleston Report
Business Insights into the Library Market
The Charleston Report is written for publishers, vendors, product developers, merchandisers, and wholesalers who are interested in expanding their library market. Readers will gain insights in effective marketing to libraries, early alerts to library trends, access to library leaders’ future plans, library budget projections, library strategic plans, technology directions, and publications needs.

Collection = Connection
The Library Collection Management Blog
Collection Connection is sponsored by the Collection Management and Development Section of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association. The purpose of the blog is to present new ideas about library collections and to provide a forum to discuss changes in the practice of collection management and development.

Collections 2.0 
by Steven R. Harris, University of New Mexico
A place to speculate about the future of libraries, especially how digital technology and social software (Web 2.0 and Library 2.0) together might affect the development and management of library collections. How can we continue to develop and maintain rich cultural repositories and also implement the best of 2.0 to foster community around those repositories? See the posts in the “philosophy” category to gain a better picture of my goals and aims. The opinions expressed here are mine and not those of my employer.

INFOdocket
Information Industry News + New Web Sites and Tools From Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy.

InfoViews
Mike Diaz, ProQuest
Insights About Libraries, Research and Learning. This blog is to bring together fresh insights about libraries, research, and learning and to provide some context and commentary on the the latest trends. I hope that it will also become a vehicle sharing the latest innovations and best practices across the library, research and learning spaces.

Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog (He’s the General Manager & Publisher at O’Reilly Media)
A Book Publisher’s Future Visions of Print, Online, Video and All Media Formats Not Yet Invented

Joeyanne Libraryanne
Jo Alcock
A (next-gen) academic librarian based in the West Midlands (England) interested in new technologies, strategic marketing, and ways to improve the service of an academic library.

Librarian.net
Jessamyn West
Hi. My name is Jessamyn West and I’ll be your librarian today. I work in rural Vermont as a library technologist and am a community manager at MetaFilter.com.

Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog
This blog was developed as an internal communications vehicle and externalized after a year or so in October 2004. Naturally, its interests relate closely to those of OCLC Research generally.

No Shelf Required
Sue Polanka
A blog about ebooks, loosely defined to discuss ebooks, audiobooks, and other digital content found in libraries as well as the technology needed to read it and/or listen to it. It is designed to inform librarians and publishers of the happenings in the industry from a variety of perspectives.

Preservation Underground
Collaboration
Dispatches from the Duke University Libraries Preservation and Conservation Departments, which serve Duke and the wider academic community by extending the life of their collections and overseeing the treatment and preventative care that ensures the long-term usefulness of the university’s resources.

Publishing Trends
News and Opinion on the Changing World of Book Publishing

ResourceShelf
Collaboration
Founded in 2001 by noted information professional Gary Price, this blog offers information on countless high-quality, resources on the web, including databases, lists and rankings, real-time sources, and multimedia.

Scholarly Communications @ Duke
Kevin Smith
Duke’s source for advise and information about copyright and publication issues.

Stephen’s Lighthouse
Written by Stephen Abram, to “… muse about things library and librarianesque.”

Library Journal blog by Roy Tennant

University & Independent Publishers’ Feedcluster
A collection of blogs from non-profit and university publishers.

Woman In Combat
Sounding off about a woman’s life in the modern world.  Woman in Combat is a collection of humorous essays about things in everyday life that drive most of us women crazy.