Blogs & Listservs
GSLIS-Authored Blogs
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)
- 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 - Stephen Abram's blog
- 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.
