LIBR 246-11 Web 2.0 (Summer 2011)

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Keeping up with the profession? Holy cow. I’m staging a 3 front attack: RSS feeds, continuing education, and attending professional conferences. Having an actual JOB one day will also be a source of motivation to keep up and keep ahead.

RSS

My Google reader is steadily filling up with feeds from all walks of librarian. Some fave’s:

In the Library with The Lead Pipe (the gold standard, for me)

Digital Buzz Blog (digital trends worldwide)

Information Wants to be Free (How could I not!)

Inside Higher Ed Blog (Barbara Fister)

Library Renewal (electronic library)

Shelf Talk (Seattle Public’s RA blog)

The Unquiet Librarian (school libraries)

Continuing Ed

The 14 classes of this program were just scratching the surface for me as an aspiring librarian. Therefore extended learning opportunities like those afforded through Web Junction, and InfoPeople. I’ve also dropped in on some of the webinars sponsored by vendors with good results.

Conferences

And of course there is the important F2F engagement that underpins it all: attending professional conferences, informal library meet-ups, touring libraries, showing up at my chapter of the Special Library Association, and continuing to build a personal learning network of people who inspire, inform, and entertain.