Management 2.0 via blogs in school and academic libraries

While blogs are big in the library world at large, they are particularly popular in academic libraries. And those in the academic world are doing what they do best: studying and writing; the literature is full of articles examining blog usage in academic libraries.

For example:

• Hernández, Y., & Domínguez, N. (2010). Blogs as content management system for an information literacy program.
• Murray, D., & Bell, S. (2007). Exploring the faculty blogoverse: Where to start and what's in it for academic librarians.

What are your experiences with blogs in school or academic libraries?

Special issues school and academic libraries:

• Privacy (school)
• Academic community—already inclined toward reading and writing, will they follow another blog?
• Others?

Some general ways in which schools and libraries are using blogs in a management context:

• Enacting the academic library mission (furthering intellectual discourse)
• Marketing
• Internal communications and resource management
• Professional development