Category: Blogs and Blogging

I know I’m probably 18 months late in learning about this blog, but thanks to Library Stuff for pointing it out. It’s the funniest, truest, most insightful thing I’ve read in ages. It’s A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette. Read it and weep (from laughing, with only a little crying mixed in).

(Josh, you’ll know why this one made me scare the cat when some unfamiliar noises made it out of my throat.)

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The more I read, the more cool blogs I find. This is GREAT! It’s like being at a conference every day all day. (BTW, see Meredith’s awesome post on online education for librarians. This IS a great time to be a librarian.) So here’s what’s new to me recently.

• Blog About Libraries (it’s a blog…about libraries, and it’s cool)
• Library Marketing – Thinking Outside the Book (keep up on trends and ideas and how they apply to libraries!)
• Library Crunch (Michael Casey’s blog)
• The “M” Word (a great blog about marketing)
• Outgoing (by Thom Hickey from OCLC Research)

There are lots more on my bloglines account. And to all you bloggers out there that I learn from every day, thanks. I’m having the time of my life learning about my profession from people who are so engaged and passionate about their work.

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New ALA president Leslie Burger is hosting a blogger’s night. Consider yourself invited! (Information via the Free Range Librarian and Library Garden.)

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I’d just reconciled myself to the idea of not having categories in my blog (because I use Blogger). I’d told myself, “It’s ok. Actually, the tag cloud is better. It’s cooler, more spontaneous, cooler, oh yeah, and cooler. Categories are for old folks.” (I’m very good at rationalizations.) Well, now I find out (via this amazing blog I just found) that there’s a hack that could let me have categories to my heart’s content (you can find it here).

But here’s the thing… My sidebar is pretty full. I keep tweaking it, and moving more of my blogroll to the folders in my bloglines account that don’t get displayed on my sidebar, etc., but I can’t think of a good way to make more space. So now I’m wondering, to category or not to category…that is the question. Would this be more useful than my tag cloud? Does any one have a preference? Do I do both? Oh, the decisions!

On a completely unrelated note, I think Stephen did end up “scratching some assumptions” on Monday, and the future is showing through (see his response to my post). Thanks Stephen! And, as I said in the comments there, I didn’t mind a bit that the talk went long. Great talk.

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