Aesthetik Musings - “and other slightly insane diatribes…” (RSS feed)

The author Rebecca is a graduate student in the University of Rhode Island’s Masters in Library Science and Information Studies program.

From Steven’s comments, we learn that Mikko Saari is a librarian-to-be, also using del.icio.us. And Mikko has a blog:

www.melankolia.net - “Life and opinions of Mikko Saari” (RSS feed)

BTW, with Mikko, BentleyBlog and icontemplate, I count 10 del.icio.us library bloggers.

Ooh, ooh, and the inseasonlibrarian, who may very well be Linda of The In Season Christian Librarian. But then again, maybe not.

Oh look, and jessamyn too.

The Leddy Library Weblog relaunched a little while back with a new URL.

LibrarianInBlack reports that the Marin County Free Library Blog has a new feed.

The Gospel According to Library Dave - “Don’t take my word for it…okay, do.” (no feed)

Chuc Mung Nam Moi (no apparent feed)

Daynah is a Programmer Analyst II for the University of California Riverside Library System.

Library Diva - “Am I really a librarian?” (RSS feed)

Marian the Librarian is Dead - “The trials and tribulations of a library administrator/interesting person.” (no feed)

…as if you needed any. But I like giving the occasional glimpse into the late-night inner workings of a LIS blog hunter.

So Steven talks about library bloggers who use del.icio.us. He counts four. I immediately think of five and begin to write a comment to that effect.* But I quickly start to wonder whether there are others to be found lurking within the social bookmarking latticework. Working through a series of possible bookmark categories, including libraries, library and librarianship. I note the user names of the people bookmarking in these categories. And by following the user name links, I come across the following, another library blogger using del.icio.us:

Easy Librarian - Musing on Digital Library,Topicmap,Knowledge Organization System” (RSS feed)

So that makes six (seven if you count Karl Siewert, occasional contributor to memepool). This same obsessive behavior leads me to wonder if jlm has or will have a library blog for us to share with you.

*[The five user names are librarystuff, planetneutral, tangognat, simanoff and mamamusings. The individual pages are at http://del.icio.us/user_name]

Well, I’ve received two comments on consecutive days from someone named moreno, who strongly desires to promote the “biggest librarians blog in brazil.” Admittedly, the blog looks interesting, but the transition in tone from the first to second comment is quite off-putting.

To my regular readers, please excuse the following rant:

[rant]
1. Please don’t tell me what I “need to publish.” I appreciate all suggestions and regard them as such. Suggestions, not obligations. Coercion is unwelcome.

2. Give me a chance. I do have a day job after all. Immediately following up a friendly, legitimate request the next day with seemingly condescending remarks about my linguistic faculties and/or cultural bias does not move you up the priority list.

3. There’s an email address to the right (hasn’t been there long), so please use that for suggestions of this variety. That way, I won’t feel compelled to use this forum to air my grievances.
[/rant]

Of course, I can relate to the over-enthusiasm of a student and respect the pitfalls of cross-cultural text-based communication via blog commenting. And I really like the phrase “We have feed.” So having said my piece, I offer the following:

Bibliotecários sem fronteiras - “ação, formação e informação” (RSS feed)