Blogs

What are blogs?

• Blog defined by Wikipedia
• Blogs in Plain English from CommonCraft (short video)

Blogs in Action

• ArLiSNAP, the blog and online community for Art Library Students and New Art Professionals
• The Yale Arts Library Blog
• The Robert Goldwater Library Blog for the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Eye Level, the blog of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Art Blog, the blog of Gary Ginther, Art Librarian at Ohio University
• Places and Spaces - Environmental Planning and Design news from Rutgers University professor David Tolloch
• Artist Blog Search - Search for information in over 500 art-related blogs
• MuseumBlogs.org - Find other museum blogs
• Walker Art Center Visual Arts Blog
• All Things Visual - blog of The University of Chicago's Visual Resources Center (posts by staff)
• Library Voices - blog of Ringling College of Art and Design Library (posts by staff and students)

Start Your Own Blog

• Blogger
• WordPress
• TypePad ($$)
• Livejournal

Learn More About Blogs

• Susan Herzog's "BlogBib", full of resources on Blogs and Blogging with a library focus
• "How and Why to use Blogs to Promote Your Library's Services" by Darlene Fichter. Published on Information Today in December, 2003.
• "Delivering the News with Blogs: The Georgia State University Library Experience" by Teri Vogel and Doug Goans. Published in Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 2005.
• EDUCAUSE: 7 Things You Should Know About Blogs