U. of Michigan Offers Free Blogs
March 1st, 2006Great news from Library Journal:
“Recognizing the popularity—and potential—of blogs, the University of Michigan has launched mBlog, a program offering free blogs to UM students and employees. The program is a collaboration of the University Library, Information Technology Central Services (ITCS), and the university’s Bentley Historical Library. Library officials said the project had been incubating for about a year and is the result of both student and faculty requests to use blogs and the library’s interest in “exploring new modes” of publishing. “The Library is providing a platform for interactive publishing and discourse,” Susan Hollar, the curriculum integration coordinator for the UM Library, said. To launch the program, the library purchased “off-the-shelf software,” which was then modified by ITCS to fit UM’s system.”
Let’s hope that they can get as much mileage out of this project as Shane Nackerud has at Uthink. I also love the collaboration between departments at UM. I’ve been reading about collaboration at colleges for the book.
Can anyone provide more examples/case studies of collaborations between university libraries and other departments that have worked well?