Blogs at UIUC Library
July 20th, 2005Word today from Sharif Islam who works at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries. Check out their blogging initiative. They have 7 blogs going, some of which have been around for a while and some which recently started:
1. Issues in Scholarly Communication - “Issues in Scholarly Communication is a newsletter produced by Paula Kaufman, University Librarian, for the UIUC community.”
2. Biotechnology Information Center News - “Recent news from the Biotechnology Information Center, a virtual branch of the UIUC Library.”
3. Business and Economics Library - “bellog is produced by the UIUC Business and Economics Library Staff.”
4. Grainger Engineering Library News
5. News and views from the Uni High Library
6. Daily INHS journals - “This blog is used to get journal information to remote users of the Illinois Natural History Survey Library. Each day, we add a list of journals that are on display in the Library.” (I love this one!)
7. ESSL Children’s Literature Blog - “Welcome to the blog for the S-Collection for children’s and young adult literature at the Education and Social Science Library (University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign). We will use this blog to post information about our collection, provide tips on how to find specific resources, and share information that will be useful for certain UIUC courses that utilize the S-Collection”
They’ve also aggregated all of their blogs on one page using Planet Planet. Suweeeeeeet!