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GSLIS Listservs

Mailing lists are available to current students, regional students, and alumni. It is very strongly recommended that all students join the Current Students listserv- it is frequently updated with news, helpful information, and various deadlines.

Select a link below to join or leave a list.

• Current Students (all students should subscribe)
• Regional Students (regional students may subscribe in addition to the list above)
• GSLIS Alumni

Members of these lists may also view view the list's archives via the above links.

Blogs

Weblogs (or blogs) are rapidly becoming a dominant form of information dissemination. It is recommended that students read professional blogs as a way to keep up to date on the most current information and events in the Library and Information Science profession.

Recommended LIS blogs:

• Rhodarian - The OLIS blog
• Shifted Librarian - Blog of the ever-popular Jenny Levine
• J's Scratchpad -Jennifer Baumgart's blog on news librarianship
• Librarian In Black - "resources and discussions for the 'tech-librarians-by-default' among us"
• Library Stuff - Stephen M. Cohen's "resources for keeping current and professional development"
• Stephen's Lighthouse - SLA President-Elect Stephen Abram's blog
• Loriene Roy's ALA President-Elect Blog - her activities, LIS education, diversity, equity of access, literacy efforts, intellectual freedom.
• Catalogablog - David Bigwood's news in the cataloging world
• The Distant Librarian - "Comments on the world of Distance Librarianship"
• Resourceshelf - A list of high-quality web resources

Readers:

To read blogs, one can either go directly to the site, or have the blog feed via RSS or ATOM into a Feed Reader. Google Reader, Bloglines and the Firefox extension Sage are a few examples of feed aggregators you can use.