5 blog reactions to http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2007/12/31/hype-and-the-biblioblogosphere/

Dorothea Salo started a conversation late last year

’t necessarily have to copy what those companies do, in order to be successful. Pew have published a survey of library/internet use in the US. Some responses: Sarah Houghton-Jan has a good summary. Dorothea Salo isn’t happy at Pew “courting” bibliobloggers behind the scenes. (A number of bloggers who commented on the survey noted that Pew had contacted them to promote it; some others (who surely were contacted) didn

I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions. But sometimes an exception makes sense. This is one such time. Dorothea Salo at CavLec posted about an odd but growing phenomenon: Pseudo-personal email to bloggers touting specific items or studies with the suggestion that, you know, the blogger might want to write about it. Quoting a bit of her post about the email

Eric Sizemore, Champaign Public Library Links to the show topics: 1. Information Searches That Solve Problems (Pew Internet) Breaking news: the Internet is useful, people still use libraries (Free Range Librarian) Hype and the biblioblogosphere (Caveat Lector) 2. LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Off the Mark) 3. Challenging Cheney (Newsweek) 4. Congress directs EPA to re-open its libraries (PEER) 5. Late Library Books Can Take Toll on Credit Scores

gebruik maakt van de bibliotheek. In de tien jaar, sinds de verschijning van het Benton rapport, heeft internet een belangrijke plaats ingenomen en je ziet dan ook dat bibliotheken de ruimtes aanpassen op dit nieuwe sociale gebruik van de bibliotheek. Dorothea van Caveat Lector, een post met de titel Hype and the biblioblogosphere. Zij gaat niet in op de inhoud van het rapport maar richt zich op de organisatie die het onderzoek heeft gedaan. Blijkbaar heeft PEW een aantal bibliobloggers benaderd door middel van een email. Ook