Popular Blogs - Some I use each day

Hi Group!!

I Hope that you're all well and busy reading, blogging and having fun while you're at it.  I've had a read of Lisette and Nouf's blogs, but haven't been able to get into Kate or Luisa's blogs as yet.  I also found that my reply posts to both Lisette and Nouf's posts wouldn't 'accept' me, so I've copied and pasted them into a word doc and I'll try to work out what I've done wrong then post them.  I'm pretty sure that the problem involves gmail and R.M.I.T., or perhaps I haven't invited you in or vice versa or something, but I'll see.

Today's post is about my most popular blogs.  The most common way that I access the blogs that I follow is through Twitter, then facebook and then email.  Our Yammer Blog is connected to our student email account, so, as you know, we receive updates about Yammer activity so that we can check the blog.  I've found that these updates only just touch the surface and that I need to go in each day, when uni is happening especially, to check out just what's happening.  I've posted and shared on Yammer a few times but I mostly use it to keep up to date with our MIM Community, check out industry info and see what's being shared that can support my learning.

I've used my Twitter account  to follow as many libraries and associated organisations as I can.  This has proven to be very exciting at times because of some of the activities and blogs which happen.  Last year I was involved in the ANZ23LibraryThings which had an amazing blog, full of activities, information and also skype sessions which all helped me to study. This lasted from March to November and was run by both Australian and New Zealand Librarians.  Other blogs which I follow on my Twitter account and which are @ and # before them are The British Library, ALIA Info Online, The Wheeler Centre, Aust Lib & Info Assn, RMIT Uni Library, ACMI, London Review (LRB), VALA, RMIT University, Melbourne Library, Library Journal, Library of Congress, New Professionals, OCLC, Museum Victoria, Women of Letters, State Library of Vic,ALIA NGAC, NY Public Library, Age Arts, NYer Page-Turner, NY Review of Books, National Library Aus, Macquarie Dictionary, NPD Ireland, ManchesterNLPN, UCD Digital Library, uklibchat, NewAmsterdamLibrary, IanPotterFoundation, LibraryThing.com, Cockburn Library, InfoMngmt Librarian, NGV, goodreads, Book Riot, Bookish, atyourlibrary.org, NPR Books, HuffPost Books, New York Times Books, mini-bieb, Book Thing, Bloomsbury USA, LT for Libraries, The People's Library and quite a few more.  I'm going to create a separate list of these contacts, most of which have informative blogs, or at least a place where you can ask questions, share or just read what's happening in the global library world.  I'm going to put the proper link addresses into the list in the next day or two.  Please share if you have others too, then perhaps our group can grow this resource list.

My other favourite or most popular blogs are those which belong to Edgar's Mission, Vege Head and Sea Shepherd. 

I hope that you enjoy this post and that you can use some of the above resources to help with ISYSS1166.

Happy Blogging,
Susanne