LIBR 246-13 Building the Social Library Online

Instead of running the risk of being "all over the place" by discussing too many elements of a "successful" blog, I'm going to limit myself to talking about the three elements that I quickly saw as the most important: (1) visual appearance, (2) frequency (of posting), and (3) writing style.

I'm going to keep this one simple and fun, gang :)

So how do I think community forms in the blogosphere???  I think it forms in a very similar way that community forms around informal or "neighborhood" sports, if you will.  I'll be happy to draw some connections =) ....

How will blogging contribute to my learning in this class???  The very first thing which comes to mind is that blogging will undoubtedly contribute to my learning BEYOND this class, not just in this class or during this class.  Whereas previous classes asked of me to research certain topics, it should be pointed out that those assignments (and hours of research) are now, in a sense, "caught in time," meaning that they are done and gone -- kinda' like a moment caught in a photograph.  Blogs could be used as a permanent and instant wi

1. Which five blogs did you subscribe to and why?

I subscribed to 1.) The "M" Word - Marketing Libraries, 2.) Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 3.) ProgrammableWeb, 4.) RSS4Lib, and 5.) ACRLog.

Shhhhh!  My immediate supervisor doesn't really know it, but social software has effected my cataloging work NEGATIVELY.  I don't know about you guys, but there's no way I can do 8 consecutive hours of strict cataloging.  It's too tempting to get away from the boring interface of our library's catalog and go to something like my MySpace account.  (I'll admit that I'm sometimes on there longer than I should be when I'm at "work.")  So, my monthly cataloging statistics would most likely be higher were it not for the lure of websites such as MySpace and YouTu

Hi,

I'm Raymundo Andrade, but feel free to call me Ray or Raymond -- whichever you prefer.  I live in the city of Bell (population ~35,000), approximately 10 minutes south-east of downtown Los Angeles, California.  I majored in Philosophy and minored in Political Science at Loyola Marymount University -- (the same place where I currently work as a Library Assistant in the Cataloging department) -- and I'm currently enrolled in my 5th and 6th class, (the other class being Beginning Cataloging w/ Gregory Cotton).