Library Pariah

Library Pariah. The motto of this clever blog is, "Is it a parody, or is it real? You decide." It is clearly parody but it is good paradoy that it is clearly written by academic librarians who are basing these posts on real life experience. Think of this blog as The Onion of academic librarianship.

Here are a few recent posts with excerpts:

University Appeases the Hell out of Donor - "As part of a deal to name the library at Bayside University and secure a substantial endowment that will offset recent budget cuts, president Caroline Ellings has agreed to install a massive Chutes and Ladders-style slide extending from the roof of the building to the campus quad five stories below, according to a recent campus press release. 'The donor is a distant heir to the Bradley side of the famous Milton Bradley gaming empire, so we thought this would be a fitting, albeit unconventional acknowledgement of her generosity,' Ellings told LP."

Classroom Cleavage Hospitalizes Instruction Librarian - "As he laid eyes on his students for the first time, however, the frigid classroom was the only thing that kept the thirty-one year old librarian from spontaneously combusting, as Bacon was blinded by a sea of taut, tanned undergraduate bodies amply exposed to view. "

Library NOT Heart of University, Survey Shows - "“The library is really more like the gall bladder of the university—nice to have, but not vital to its well-being.”

Librarian's Padded Tenure File Escapes Notice - “I didn’t take this job because I wanted to process an inconsequential goddamn manuscript collection at some Mickey Mouse university,” St. Thomas revealed. “I came here for one reason only: a solid paycheck—augmented by a juicy 15% promotion that came with tenure—and an unfathomably great benefits package for this dump, so two reasons, really.”

And my favorite, Librarians Get Research Credit for Filling Staplers - "One of our librarians, for instance, has published a series of groundbreaking articles in top-ranked library journals assessing patron reaction to manual versus electric staplers. Thus the act of filling staplers is intimately connected to his research and should be acknowledged as such."

To the gifted authors of Library Paraiah, please keep it coming.

Clever Comment Spammers are Getting Cleverer

Over at We Interrupt This Broadcast, Keith Tipton has a good commentary on Comment Spammers Aren't Just Bots Any More. Keith has some good comments on what I am also noting as a new trend from spammers.

I enjoy Keith's blog. Although I am not a stay at a home dad, I appreciate his thoughts on this issue. I wish at times I had the choice to be at home every day with my boys. I wish everyday was Saturday and Sunday but it is not that simple of course. Keith and I have similar interests on topics like critical thinking, Battlestar Galactica, library science, and volunteering at what is appearing to be the archaic practice of contributing to Web Directories. And both of us have been treated poorly by oligarchs at one of these directories.

Keith notes that some Web site spammers are personally attempting to spam sites. Bots have a lot of success in spamming blogs because many naive bloggers approve comments which seem to be on topic but are really just an attempt to get a link to a questionable site which may only help the spammer.

Keith published my comment on this. It notes, "I am getting real life human generated spam as well. I am noticing well written (sometime detailed) comments directly responding to my posts that then include a link to a questionable site. I am deleting these. However, I have no doubt a real person wrote these rather than a bot. I have noted the Google PR of the blog in question dictates the frequency of the comments. My PR 6 blog (which is sometimes a 7) gets about 3 spam comments a day. My other two blogs (both 5s) get only a couple a week. The spammers have a plan and it is directly relates to fooling Google and other search engines."

The comments at this blog, American Presidents Blog, and another blog which I keep under a different name which I do not want to reveal yet, are getting increasingly sophisticated. A real person is writing a comment that relates to the post at hand. However, these comments then link to a site (cleverly blended in to the Blogger accept or reject options for a comment in many cases) that I have no choice but to reject. And the higher the Google Page Rank a blog has, the more likely a comment will actually be spam. I reject spam comments everyday and the frequency of my rejections is increasing.

No matter what we do, the spammers will respond and try to counter it. Every effort to counter it will provoke a response. No search engine will ever create a full proof algorithm to counter spam. Hence, spammers will learn and adapt. All bloggers need to be certain that before any comment is approved that any links attached are for the betterment of the users of the world. If not, hit reject!

Blogging: A Tool for Information Fluency

Blogging: A Tool for Information Fluency. This article is in the new issue of SOS Spotlight. It is by Pam Berger. The focus is K-12 school blogging but others interested in library blogging and information literacy will probably find this worthwhile to read. I particularly enjoyed several of the blogs linked to in the article.

From the site:

Did you respond to the latest posting on the journalism blog? How did you set up the RSS feed? Do you know of any good blogs on Manga? These are not questions from a science fiction novel but rather student interactions in 21st century classrooms and libraries. What it means to be literate is changing. Web 2.0, the term coined for the next generation Web, moves the Internet from being simply web sites and search engines to a shared network space that offers students a place to publish and broadcast their own writing, collaborate on projects and engage in conversations. Students with their mobile and non-mobile devices -- cell phones, MP3 players, laptops, digital cameras, computers, etc. are always online and connected to one another and to the Web. Blogs, one of the first traces of Web 2.0, displays the Web 2.0 principles of interactivity, user participation, and collective intelligence.

In a few short years, blogs have grown into an exciting medium for individuals to express their opinions, participate in an online community, communicate ideas, share relevant information, and document important events as they happen. Thanks to free and inexpensive blog hosting sites, anyone can blog. A recent study (July 2006) found that eight percent of internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Thirty-nine percent of internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs – and a majority of them are under 30 years old.

Ideas for Using the Web to Get a Book Published

I was talking to one of my colleagues today at the library. She was telling me about a relative who has written a manuscript but is having trouble finding a publisher. Apparently, there are thousands of want-to-be writers out there and getting attention is hard.

I provided her with the following idea. She asked me to write it down so she could send it to her relative. I decided to go ahead and post it to this blog as others may find it of interest.

1. Put part of your book on the Web. Find a good site designer and a Web host and post you chapters online. Find someone who knows how to do good search engine optimization (SEO) or learn about it yourself and promote your site.

2. Put Google Adsense on all your pages. This is described by Google as, “a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site — or matched to the characteristics and interests of the visitors your content attracts — you'll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages.” The wonder of this system is that as your writing is visited by Web surfers, you have a chance to make money.

3. If you have a fiction book, only put the first half of the book online. Give enough good writing that visitors will want to buy the entire book. Make plenty of links on the site for purchasing.

4. Find a vanity press publisher who will print your book for a fee. You will be sent a small number of copies. However, make sure the publisher allows for print-on-demand ordering so that the books can be printed as they are ordered by customers.

5. It will take time and work but if you promote your site well and have a decent book, you should generate Web traffic, sell some books, and maybe have Google sending you a monthly check. If so, use this as an attention getting point for traditional publishers. Point out how many books you have sold, how many libraries own copies of the book, show key words you rank well for on the Web, etc. Use your current success to prove that you will be profitable and successful for a traditional publisher.

This model will not work for everyone. Many writers fail online too. However, if you believe you have a good book, are not afraid to learn about the Web, and can afford some risk, why not try a model similar to this to get attention? Good luck.

Suspected Spam Blog?

I logged into my Blogger account to update my American Presidents Blog. I got this note:

“Your blog is locked. Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive. You won't be able to publish posts to your blog until one of our humans reviews it and verifies that it is not a spam blog. Please fill out the form below to get a review. We'll take a look at your blog and unlock it in less than a business day. If we don't hear from you, though, we will remove your blog from Blog*Spot within 10 days. Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.”

I am a little confused how my presidents blog could trip a spam filter. There are four or five posts a week linking to different domains none of which are spammy sites. There is actual original writing on every post. I even fill out the word verification form every time to prove I am a human before I post.

Oh well, I approve of spam fighting even if I get a one day block to get this sorted out. A human review will verify my blog is not spam. Still, this is mildly annoying!

Tomorrow's Professor Blog

Tomorrow's Professor Blog. I discovered this blog yesterday via an e-mail from my doctoral advisor. (Thanks Pam!) It is a blog geared towards college teaching and scholarship. Although the focus is on future college faculty, I am sure many currently teaching academic librarians will enjoy browsing it on a regular basis.

From a press release:

As we announced back in early November, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University have joined forces to produce a forum to allow readers of the "Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List" to reach out to other subscribers and to hear and share thoughts with colleagues from around the world. Despite a bit of delay, we are happy to announce that we have gone live and you can now access this discussion center, "The Tomorrow's Professor Blog", at http://amps-tools.mit.edu/tomprofblog/. You also will be able to access the site through a link on each of the regular mailings and through the homepage of the "Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List" website. Please visit the site at your convenience, make use of it as you see fit, and let us know what you think of this forum including any suggestions for improvement. Send your thoughts to "tomorrowsprof@mit.edu". There is also an ability to access this through the homepage of the site. At the present time, only the most recent mailings are posted on the site and available for comment. We will, of course, post all new mailings as we move forward in time. We will also be working to post all the mailings of the past. This will, however, take some time.

We hope that everyone finds this new forum useful and we look forward to a live and interesting interaction that complements the communication of the regular twice-per-week mailings.

Comment Spam Audacity

I screen all of my comments before they go live on this blog and several others that I have. I have been forced to do this due to the high amount of comment spam I receive. This may discourage some from posting but it keeps my comments spam free.

I have seen obvious spam (buy Viagra now with links) to attempts to hide a spam comment as a real comment. In the latter case, there appears to be a real comment like "great blog" and other such small talk with a spam language (with link of course) hidden in the text.

I got a new one the other day. It read:

Hello,I (student) am posting to tell you that your blog is most impressive!! I would like to become a member.. Regards, make extra money. (Of course, the "make extra money" had a link on it I have removed.)

OK, the spammer is claiming to be a student who likes my blog. Nice start I guess.

The next part is new. He/she wants access to my blog (become a member) so he/she can post new entries on it? I doubt I would ever give such access to anyone but a librarian I knew but it is possible I guess. However, then comes the spam link!

If you want to gain access to a blog so you can post whole entries of disguised spam to the Web, do you not think you should at least hold off the spam for a bit and not try to slip it in on your first comment? Does this ploy work? If you spam like this one hundred times, does it work even once to make it worth your while?

I am not offended. Spammers are slime and this is the crap they do. I expect it. My comment verification (and required registration with Blogger) will never be turned off. However, I am still amazed to see the level of audacity some spammers will attempt.

Comment Spam for the Holidays

After several days of no internet access, I discovered when I logged in that I had 12 comments on this blog. Of these, only one was a real comment.

The other eleven were spam. Each had a note like, "Thanks for this great blog! I like it. Please check out these helpful links." And of course there then followed links to commercial sites with the links using keywords the the spammer was trying to market. I removed each of these "posts."

I am sick of this. As such, I am now requiring comment verification for blog posts. This means I have to approve every comment on this blog before it is published. I am online all day at the library and I log in at night before I go to sleep. Real comments will not have to wait long to be approved.

Also, I am ending anonymous comments. I have discovered that some posts under this method look OK. They tend to have a short response which seems to be in tune with the blog post. However, under closer scrutiny, it becomes apparent that the poster has a link from his/her name to a spam site. This is not evident to me in my e-mail when I get a notice that a post has been made.

I realize all of the above may suppress comments from real posters. But what else can I do? I have worked hard on this site and I refuse to allow it to be a spam magnet.

Turning the Comments On

Turning the Comments On. I have decided to allow comments at this blog. Blogger has just allowed for comments to be set up that require a word verification to submit. This is to keep automated spam out of the blog comment fields. I have always been afraid of turning comments on as this blog is fairly visible and I feared it would be spammed to death. Hopefully, the word verification trick will keep the spambots out and I will only have to remove spam posts on a rare moment. If not, I'll turn the comments right back off!

Library Blogs and Google PageRank

Library Blogs and Google PageRank. I enjoyed Walt Crawford’s recent column (http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ5i10.pdf) on library blogs. He attempted to rank them by using a variety of measures.

One item he did not look at is Google’s PageRank (PR) value of each blog. Google describes PR as, “PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.” (See http://www.google.com/intl/en/technology/.)

The higher the PR, the more weight Google gives the blog. As such, the higher ranked PR blogs are more likely to be found when people conduct searches for keywords. This is what brings search engine traffic to a blog and gives it visibility outside the library world. You can view the PR of any site on the Web by installing the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com/?promo=mor-tb-en) on your browser.

I have taken the list of library blogs generated by Walt Crawford and have listed them here by PR order. Please note that PR changes over time and this list was compiled on 23 August 2005.

PR 8 Library Blog: (1)

ResearchBuzz (http://www.researchbuzz.com/)

PR 7 Library Blogs: (8)

The Shifted Librarian (http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/)
Library Stuff (http://www.librarystuff.net/)
Librarian.net (http://www.librarian.net/)
beSpacific (http://www.bespacific.com/)
Open Stacks (http://openstacks.net/os/)
Information Literacy Land of Confusion (http://lorenzen.blogspot.com)
LibraryLaw Blog (http://blog.librarylaw.com/)
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm)

PR 6 Library Blogs: (34)

Free Range Librarian (http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/)
Tame the Web (http://www.tametheweb.com/ttwblog/)
LibrarianInBlack (http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/)
Catalogablog (http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/)
Commons-blog (http://www.info-commons.org/blog/)
Caveat Lector (http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/)
TechnoBiblio (http://www.technobiblio.com/)
Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog (http://orweblog.oclc.org/)
Aardvark Speaks (http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/blog/)
SiteLines (http://www.workingfaster.com/sitelines/)
Blogwithalibrary.net (http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/)
Walking paper (http://www.walkingpaper.org/)
Scitech library question (http://www.stlq.info/)
LibraryPlanet.com (http://www.libraryplanet.com/)
Lipstick Librarian (http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/blog/)
It’s all good (http://scanblog.blogspot.com/)
Ten Thousand Year Blog (http://sanchezkisser.com/ILblog/)
Library Monk (http://www.librarymonk.com/)
Library Web Chic (http://librarywebchic.net/wordpress/)
Confessions of a Mad Librarian (http://edwards.orcas.net/~misseli/blog/)
Walt at Random (http://walt.lishost.org/)
Oss4lib (http://www.oss4lib.org/)
eclectic librarian (http://www.eclecticlibrarian.net/blog/)
Phil Bradley’s Blog (http://www.philb.com/blog/blogger.html)
BlogJunction (http://webjunction.lishost.org/)
Librarian Avengers (http://www.librarianavengers.org/)
Beyond the Job (http://librarycareers.blogspot.com/)
LibraryCog (http://librarycog.uwindsor.ca:8087/artblog/librarycog/)
Pod Bay Door (http://www.podbaydoor.com/)
Blogdriverswaltz (http://www.blogdriverswaltz.com/)
Professional-Lurker (http://www.professional-lurker.com/)
Laughing Librarian (http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/)
Infomusings blog (http://www.infomuse.net/blog/)
LawLib Tech (http://www.lawlibtech.com/)

PR 5 Library Blogs: (16)

mammusings (http://www.mamamusings.net/)
Invisible Library (http://sanchezkisser.com/ILblog/)
TangognaT (http://www.tangognat.com/)
Collecting my Thoughts (http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/)
Online Insider (http://www.onlineinsider.net/)
Wandering Eyre (http://wanderingeyre.blogspot.com/)
Information Wants to Be Free (http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php)
Pop Goes the Library (http://www.nexgenlibrarian.net/popculture/)
Librarian’s Rant (http://lblog.jalcorn.net/)
LibraryTechtonics (http://www.librarytechtonics.info/)
Tiny Little Librarian (http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/)
Distant Librarian (http://distlib.blogs.com/)
Dave’s Blog (http://daweed.blogspot.com/)
Tales from the “Liberry” (http://liberry.blogspot.com/)
Library Clips (http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/)
Filipino Librarian (http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/)

PR 4 Library Blog: (1)

Feel-good Librarian (http://feelgoodlibrarian.typepad.com/)

As you can see, nine blogs on Walt’s list had high Google PR scores of 7 or 8. By contrast, only one blog had a relatively low PR of 4. The largest amount of library blogs (34 of them) on Walt’s list had a PR of 6 with a smaller number (16) having a 5.

I am sure there are library blogs out there with lower PR scores but they didn’t have the reach to make Walt’s list.

The PR Google assigns a site is no indicator about how good a blog is or isn’t. However, it is interesting to see how Google perceives the authority of a blog to be by the amount of PR it assigns a particular library blog.

Information Literacy Weblog Update

Information Literacy Weblog Update. Here is the status of the Information Literacy Weblog which is currently having problems. This is Shelia Webber's response to my e-mail asking about the site:

Thanks for your concern! Someone tried to hack into the server, and unfortunately at the same time the researcher who'd been maintaining most of the stuff on that server got a job somewhere else, plus it coincided with a time when Stuart and I were away alot anyway ... therefore it has taken longer than we had thought it would to sort things out and get them up and running again. We are hoping that it will operational very shortly (hopefully in a fewdays time) - I'll email you when it is. We are also looking at getting the blog hosted somewhere with a bit more backup if things go wrong. By the way, Stuart Boon, here at Sheffield has also been a key person for the blog, he is the other person apart from me who has provided most of the posts. Best wishes Sheila.

Information Literacy Weblog?

Information Literacy Weblog? For several weeks now, the Information Literacy Weblog has been returning a 404. It appears to no longer exist.

This excellent blog is (or was?) kept by Sheila Webber, who teaches at Sheffield University, and Bill Johnston, who teaches at Strathclyde University. They focused on international information literacy and I have always enjoyed checking their posts.

What gives? Is the site gone? If it is, are the archives posted somewhere? I'll check into this and post an update here if I find anything out.

Blogs, the Internet, and Libraries: MLC Annual Meeting 2005

Blogs, the Internet, and Libraries: MLC Annual Meeting 2005. I was asked last week to be a speaker at this Michigan Library Consortium event in September. I have agreed and I look forward to participating and talking about blogs.

The keynote speaker is David Weinberger, author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, noted Web expert, and former gag writer for Woody Allen.

Kevin Smith of The Fiddling Librarian will also be speaking. He notes at his blog that he is "very proud, very excited, and scared ****less" to have been invited. You'll be fine Kevin.

Educational Blogging

Educational Blogging. This is a noteworthy article which looks at the educational use of blogs. Of particular note is a listing of some good blogs that teachers might find useful. The article is by Laurel A. Clyde. It appeared in Teacher Librarian, Volume 32, Number 3, February 2005.

From the site:

The "InfoTech" article for the September 2002 issue of Teacher Librarian ("Shall We Blog?") provided an introduction to weblogs or blogs and blogging in general. In the December 2002 issue of Teacher Librarian, Theresa Ross Embrey provided "a guide to how teacher-librarians can use weblogs to build communication and research skills." She defined weblogs as "a cross between a diary, a web site, and an online community"; weblogs are sites built using specially designed blogging software that makes creating and maintaining a weblog a quick and easy process. Another key feature of weblogs is that they are organized with the most recent information (or "posts") first; as new posts are added to the blog, the older posts automatically work their way down the main page and then into the archives.

Weblogs have a number of applications in education, and particularly in the school context. There are a number of authoritative educational weblogs that can be used as sources of information and provide professional development material for teachers. There are weblogs that can be used by teachers and students as sources of information for curriculum-related activities. Some schools are using weblogs to provide information to parents and other members of the school community. Teachers and students are creating and maintaining weblogs as learning projects, as part of the learning processes in the classroom. This article will look at some of these educational applications of weblogs, with examples. The URLs of the cited resources are given at the end of the article.

Academic Flame Wars

Academic Flame Wars. Flame wars are always fun. (Well, not really...) E-mail, forums, and blogs give people the opportunity to write things that they would never say in person. This essay from the Chronicle of Higher Education demonstrates how this can have negative impact on graduate students in a department. I like the term "postmodern wanker" discussed in this piece. But that the heck does it mean?

From the site:

That, at least, was how I initially viewed my department's online discussion group for graduate students, which often doubled as a blog in that students made six- or seven-paragraph comments about various topics.

It seemed an ideal public sphere where you could discuss the current state of theory, departmental politics, or, one time, whether to join adjuncts on the campus in a strike. We had been notified about the two-day walkout by the adjuncts' union weeks before, but many of us had put off making a firm decision. At the 11th hour we received an e-mail message from our own union recommending that we support the strike.

A debate ensued on the discussion group, bringing us together in a virtual town hall. Was it a "good faith" strike, given that our contract prohibited sympathy strikes? Was it fair to students to cancel class on short notice? Most of the postings seemed to support the strike, although there were a few holdouts who argued that we should go ahead and teach our classes. One student remarked how heartening it was that a vigorous debate had avoided polarization.

Then, hours before the work action, a new post appeared, one markedly different in tone from the others. "I don't think we should worry too much about avoiding polarization," John declared in his post. "The fact is that we all have two choices, and we will be divided into two groups of people after next week. If we think that 'scab' is an ugly label, we should act in a way that makes that label inapplicable to us."

Silence in the Stacks

Silence in the Stacks. This is an essay by Scott McLemee at Inside Higher Education. It is well written but it has a false assumption that not many academic librarians are blogging. A quick check of the Open Directory Project category for Library Weblogs shows that is not true.

From the site:

Some months back, one of the cable networks debuted a movie — evidently the pilot for a potential show — that inspired brief excitement in some quarters, though it seems not to have caught on. Its central character was someone whose grasp of esoteric knowledge allowed him or her (I’m not sure which, never having seen it) to command the awesome mysterious forces of the universe. Its title was The Librarian.

The program was, it seems, a reworking of a similar figure in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That’s in keeping with the fundamental law of the entertainment industry once defined by Ernie Kovacs, the great American surrealist TV pioneer: “Find something that works, then beat it to death.”

At another level, though, the whole concept derived from a tradition that is pre-television, indeed, almost pre-literate. The idea that a command of books provides access to secret forces, the equation of the scholar with the magus, was already well established before Faust and Prospero worked their spells. The linkage has also left its trace at the level of the signifier. Both glamor, originally meaning a kind of witchy sex appeal, and grimoire, the sorcerer’s reference book, derive from the word grammar — one of the foundational disciplines of medieval learning, hence a source of power.

Blog Vacation

Blog Vacation. I am taking off on vacation with my wife and sons. I have learned from past experience that it is difficult to keep up a blog posting schedule when I am travelling. As such, this blog is going on vacation too. I should go back to posting again on Monday, June 13th.

FORMIST informations

FORMIST informations. This is Sylvie Chevillotte's blog on information literacy. As you can tell by the title, it is in French. As such, I couldn't read most of it. However, I am pleased to see that she noted her visit to Central Michigan University today and put a link back to this blog. Sylvie gave an excellent presentation on information literacy at CMU and as such I trust that it is valuable resource.

The Plagiarism Blog. I just discovered this excellent blog the other day. It has posts dealing with plagiarism in the news. I have been teaching plagiarism workshops for faculty at Central Michigan University for several years now. I am going to be creating a video presentation for Blackboard this summer. I am sure I will find material that will help me as I try to stay fresh on this topic.

From the site:

Keeping Current on Plagiarism, Cheating & Academic Integrity by Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian, Eastern Connecticut State University

BlogBib: Select Librarian/Library Blogs. This is a good annotated list of library related blogs created by Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian at Eastern Connecticut State University. This section is part of a larger work on blogs.

From the site:

Criteria for selection included currency, focus (blogs that were more personal than professional were excluded), pioneers and experts, and representative blogs from various types of libraries and from various countries. Only English language blogs were included.