BLOGGING AND RSS: A LIBRARIAN'S GUIDE

摘要

In the second edition of Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide, Sauers does his best to provide a comprehensive overview of blogging and RSS for librarians. The first part of the book is dedicated to the content of blogs in the library world and covers many of the popular library blogs. This section covers big-name and long-standing blogs such as Librarian in Black and Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog (OCLC), alongside some newer and more specifically targeted blogs like Awful Library Books and A Library Writer's Blog. Of much greater interest is the chapter entitled "The Library Blogosphere Part 2: The Bloggers," which asks many library bloggers about their motivations and their advice for those starting library blogs. It is full of important thoughts on the creation of content and the best ways to engage readers. Sauers sums up the advice given perfectly in three points: have something to say, have something to say regularly, and have something to say responsibly (81-82). An unfortunate aspect of this section is a strange redundancy in printing the content of specific blog posts and then printing screenshots of them that are slightly too small to read comfortably.