Hi, Ari-- That last point is very much at the heart of my inquiry. I find it intriguing that museum librarians and archivists (and related information professionals) who are engaged in the day-to-day work of helping connect people to information spend so little time talking among themselves about the meta-level questions of what they're doing. There are certainly plenty of librarian blogs out there that address librarianship as such, but not many that I've found doing so with a focus on the museum world. I've seen quite a bit of discussion of museum/information connections, but it seems to be lead primarily by academics and programmers, with curators throwing in their occasional two cents. I'd like to see more sharing of information from other museum information practitioners (spoken of broadly, as the lines are often quite blurred).
I suspect you're right about the institutional reluctance to support that kind of blogging, as it may result in negative reflection on "the way things are being done" at a given institution. But I don't think that negativity necessarily has to be the case at all, nor does the conversation really have to revolve around a single site. In any case, more food for thought. Thanks! --E. ? Eric D. M. Johnson Web Services Librarian Jefferson Library, Monticello P.O. Box 316 Charlottesville, VA 22902 Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546 http://www.monticello.org/library/ ejohnson at monticello.org ? -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ari Davidow Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:35 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs Interesting take on the subject. The Jewish Women's Archive blogs at http://jwablog.jwa.org but mostly we blog about current events and how they relate to our collections, or just about current events. Very little meta discussion about the archive, itself. There has been resistance here to using the blog that way. In fact, I blog at Musematic when I have something to say about the tools we use or the philosophical issues we face. ari
