To continue what I learned from the Blogging Goes to College brainstorming session, here are some possible uses for blogs within the library:
- Marketing – library updates, highlight resources, tips and tricks, database changes
- Reference – as a place to keep answers of difficult questions
- Archive of common assignments
- Internal uses – staff updates, announcements, procedural manuals, podcast of professional development, to communicate common questions, committees soliciting comments from non-committee members
- Using a blog in place of a comment box
- Tips & tricks – searchable for when students actually need to do the research (“point of need”) – use stats to figure out which posts get more hits and continue to post those kinds of tips
- Have a guest blog on the library blog
- Have the author of the book used for the common book program blog on the library’s blog
- Librarians should have access to class blogs to make helpful comments for research help
- Post archival photographs asking “who are these people,” etc, for identification purposes
- Liaison blogs with feedback
- Hot topic ideas and pointers to resources for students having to write papers/give speeches about hot topics
- Solicit comments – do we have enough computers? Etc
- Tutorials
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