Libraries interact: collaboration and community in the Australian library blogosphere
VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Enabling Technologies
Wednesday 6 February 2008 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-10-bradley
Fiona Bradley
Information Services Librarian, University of Technology, Sydney Library
http://librariesinteract.info
Kathryn Greenhill
Emerging Technology Specialist, Murdoch University Library
http://librariesinteract.info
Constance Wiebrands
Acting Manager, Flexible Delivery and Lending Services, Curtin University Library
http://librariesinteract.info
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Abstract
Since July 2006, a group of Australian librarians have co-ordinated the group blog librariesinteract.info (LINT). This blog was created as a forum for professional communication and discussion of change in the Australian library sector. Communication and planning is conducted using a variety of web tools including an email list, instant messaging, collaborative bookmarking and a wiki. This paper compares the experience of the LINT authors with that of other authors of collaborative library blogs, as reported in a survey of the library blogosphere in September 2007.