Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts

Apr 24th, 2008 by Cathy Nelson

The other day I blogged about some local new blogging voices from South Carolina, my home state. Today I am adding to that some voices that promote information literacy through school library programs using the vehicle of blogs, and the net is a wider global area, way beyond just South Carolina.

Don’t forget that I spotlighted 2 SC LMS blogs of those in the post the other day. Here is a list of my favorite related to my field, school libraries. I will follow up with more SC Librarians who are blogging and adding depth and dimension to my thinking. Note: I know roughly 30 more but want to give them time to develop some meat before spotlighting them.

Testing my “table creating skills” too in the body of a blog. Hey, if you have some recommendations for me to read, please comment and add them in!

Favored School Library Media Specialists / Teacher Librarian Blogs
Hey Jude from Sydney, Australia’s Judy O’Connell	Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog
California Dreamin’ by Rob Darrow	Carolyn Foote’s Not So Distant Future
Diane M. Cordell’s Journeys	Joyce Valenza’s Never Ending Search
Chris Harris’ Infomancy	The Top Shelf written by Mary Woodard of TX
Jeri Hurd’s Bib 2.0	Diane R. Chen’s Deep Thinking
Alice Yucht’s Alice in Infoland	Sarah Kelly John’s From the Inside Out
Lori Franklin’s Library	Powerlibrarian by twitter friend Congerjan
Gargoyle’s Loose in the Library	Colorado’s “Calling All School Librarians
A Library by Any Other Name	Kathryn Greenhill’s Librarians Matter
AASL Weblog	Lucy and Ethel’s Library Schemes
SCASL Blogs	Valerie Byrd-Fort’s Library Goddess
Fran Bullington’s Informania	Mary Haddon’s Library Blog
Martha Alewine’s Library Corner	Mary Haddon’s “Untitled” Professional Blog
Andi Fansher’s Library News You Can Use

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14 Responses to “Some E-reading for school librarians”

on 25 Apr 2008 at 10:35 am1Doug Johnson

Thanks for the mention! I am always flattered when the Blue Skunk is mention. I found a couple new blogs here to add to MY reader as well.

All the best,

Doug
on 25 Apr 2008 at 11:44 am2Cathy Nelson

Doug, you are welcome. Why didn’t you leave a recommendation or two? Oh, and i grade myself as a solid C on making tables from code.
on 25 Apr 2008 at 12:24 pm3Doug Johnson

Hi Cathy,

I maintain a HIGHLY SELECT list of blogs I read at:

http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blogsiread/

Only the creme-de-la-creme, including this blog!

Doug
on 25 Apr 2008 at 5:02 pm4Mrs. B

Hi Cathy,
Thanks for sharing – I’m constantly looking for new blogs to read. Here’s one that I’ve learned a lot from, Rambling Reflections, http://lynnetai.edublogs.org/2008/04/24/boolify-boolean-searching/ Sorry about the URL – don’t know how to hyperlink text in the blog on my Mac.

Brenda
on 25 Apr 2008 at 5:13 pm5Jeri Hurd

Hi Cathy!

Wow, thanks for the mention! I’m especially flattered since my blogging really died out this school year. I blame the “first year as librarian, who knew it would be so time-consuming??” thing. I had visions of scads of free time with no papers to grade, not 10-12 hour days weeding, writing policy, etc. Not complaining, I love it. But something had to go!

Alan November was at the school today, though, and re-inspired me, so I have to get back to regular blogging. Your mention is a good kick in the derriere, too. So thanks again!

Jeri
on 25 Apr 2008 at 5:17 pm6Jeri Hurd

btw–let’s get together for coffee or a meal in San Antonio!
on 25 Apr 2008 at 8:14 pm7Cathy Nelson

@Jeri, I think, yeah, we should all get together! We’ll make Doug Johnson pay!!

I’ll be attending EdubloggerCon, but I will have family in tow. I’m hoping to at least get to hang out with new and old friends some of the time!
on 25 Apr 2008 at 8:26 pm8Doug Johnson

Hi Cathy and Jeri,

You bet. Supper’s on me. Cathy, all you have to do is get your family to distract the LWW who is attending with ME!

Doug
on 25 Apr 2008 at 8:33 pm9Cathy Nelson

@Doug, I think my charming handsome blue-eyed blonde-haired 17yo son could quite possibly arrange that!
on 29 Apr 2008 at 12:30 am10Diana Kenney

Thanks for the abundance of resources that I intend to pass on to my Media Specialists!
Kevin Essdack posted this amazing resource for Media Specialist on Twitter this evening and I thought it would fit perfectly with this post: http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

Thanks for all your work!
Diana Kenney
on 29 Apr 2008 at 9:22 am11Cathy Nelson

@Diana Thanks and be sure to leave me with some other reading to add to my reader should you come across some that you feel are good.
on 03 May 2008 at 5:16 pm12Fran

Cathy,
Thanks so much for the mention here! Like Jeri, I haven’t found much time to blog this year – working and attending grad school and having a new grandbaby added to my family (and who lives in my home) hasn’t left me the time I would love to have for the PD I get from reading and commenting on blogs.

There are several new blogs listed here for me to check out – thanks for pointing me in their direction.

I also read The Unquiet Library http://theunquietlibrary.wordpress.com/
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