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I started putting together our list of "must read" library blogs for 2008 last month and while I have received many nominations, I could use many more! Check out 10 Blogs To Read In 2007 and 10 Blogs To Read in 2006 to see who has already made the list.

So what's the criteria, you ask?
What blogs do you read every day? What blogs help you learn? What blogs keep you informed? What blogs make you laugh? Who's the best writer out there?

Think of it this way: "I read many others, but these are the LIS blogs that I read even when time is short."

I'm looking for input from as many people as possbile so the final list is full of new faces. My goal again this year, 10 blogs that collectively paint picture of what's going on in our little world.

Send me your ideas, or leave a comment below.

Note: We all know LISNews is obviously the single most important web site in the entire history of the internet, so therefore I won't be including it on the final list.
Second Note: Anyone who made it to 10 Blogs To Read in 2006 & 2007 won't be included this year.

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending November 11, 2007
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Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) relates a friend's frustration with her local library's catalog. Jon Udell has a conversation with Beth Jefferson about reinventing the library catalog. (Note that he has moved his LibraryLookup bookmarklet generator.)

Discussion at LibraryCrunch) about what library 2.0 is and is not. Joseph Lucia (ngc4lib) has a idea for how libraries could fund collaborative open source development. (via)

Michael Sauers (Travelin' Librarian)) tells a tale of unintended consequences of a library's Flickr account.

Nancy Larrabee (LIScareer) on what she wishes she had learned at library school. -- Read More

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 28, 2007
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Online learning and its impact on public libraries: Carleen (woody+wired), then Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free), then Carleen again.

lislemck (Biblioblather) just finished one of those 23 Things Challenges. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) on blogging about the library experience.

Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib) is compiling a directory of experimental library tool sites. John Miedema posted his Eight laws of library technology.

Daniel Chudnov (One Big Library) points to two articles about the World Digital Library.

K. G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) reports on OCLC's report on sharing, privacy, and trust.

LIBRARIANSHIP

Back in August, Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack had some thoughts about library literature. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) responds.

Lazygal (Killin' time being lazy) has some thoughts about what it means to be a "real" school librarian.

Krafty Librarian writes about the difference between academic medical librarians and hospital librarians. Krafty Librarian also notes that librarians can help decrease hospital length of stay.

John Miedema has some thoughts as he finds himself halfway through a part-time MLIS.

A volunteer's first encounter with AACR2. (via)

SURVEYS

Survey on middle management in libraries.

Survey on library use of and relations with mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Ebay, My Space, YouTube and others.

Survey of academic websites. (via)

SUBJECT GUIDES

From Meredith Farkas, more about 2.0 subject guides.

ODDS & ENDS

Krafty Librarian with a reminder to check your domain name expiration date. [Ed.: but watch out for fake renewal emails]

T-shirt of the week (via)

The story of the superhero librarian who rescued the children from the scary monster.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

ASIS&T 2007 (October 19-24)
- Christina Pikas (Christina's LIS Rant).
- Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib).

Internet Librarian 2007 (October 29-31)
- Lots o' bloggers
- Twitter.

AASL 2007 (October 24-28)
- Christopher Harris (Infomancy).

Strategic Thinking and Planning (with Larry Seaquist) (October 19-21)
- Duane McCollum (The Information Auditor)

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on LISNews every Monday. [Feeds]

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 15, 2007
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First off, apologies for being away so long. What was supposed to be a one-week distraction stretched to six weeks. I'm about caught up on things I neglected in that time, so today's TWiL consists mostly of odds and ends I hadn't used yet. I expect next week's to be more like a normal TWiL. Thanks again for your patience.

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David Shedden (Poynter Online) wrote a history of digital news from 1969 to the present.

Speaking of space-age firsts: the Gail Borden Library (Elgin, Ill.) became the first public library to host a live chat with International Space Station astronauts.

T-shirt of the Week.

Cartoons:
- Questionable Content: "Have you ever seen a gaggle of drunken librarians?"

- Real Life Comics: think before you give books as gifts (language warning).

Quotes:
- "If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that's fine. But they give it to a functional illiterate who can't read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills. That's not opportunity. If you want to give financial help to minorities, go find the ones who are at the library after school." William Dowling, Confessions of a Spoilsport. (via)