Blogs and Blog Readers

This blogging thing is all new to me so I had no idea that blog readers even existed. It is such a neat way to keep all the blogs I like in one page, similar to Pinterest.  The blog reader that I decided to use was Feedly. The others I found a little more complicated.  Feedly was a little more user-friendly, starting with how to add blogs to my blog reader.  All I had to do was click on "Add COntent" and search for blogs. On the other blog readers I had to really search through their sites to find out how to add my blogs, especially in Bloglovin- I never found where to add my blogs. =(  

Once I learned to add blogs to my blog reader, I could easily locate where my favorite blogs were, "My Feedly".  Once I was there, I clicked on the blogs that I had added and I could very easily browse through their content.  Feedly is the blog reader I liked best and would recommend. 

As I searched through blogs on the web and Tumblr, the following blogs are the best that I chose to follow:

1. http://mrlibrarydude.wordpress.com/ 

This blog belongs to a librarian, male, who works at the Carroll University.  The post on this blog are about the librarian dude describing his job, posts pictures of events he has going on in his library, and in general, what good libraries should look like and what services they should provide. 

2. http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/  

I really enjoyed reading through this blog.  I would recommend it to any librarian working at a high school.  This blogger posts lessons and pictures of students as she is delivering the lesson.  I especially liked the Twitter one.  I liked how well she planned with the teacher and how it was implemented. She also included a section where student got to evaluate the lesson and it seems like they all enjoyed it.  She has excellent ideas!

3. https://blog.library.si.edu/

One of my dreams is to hopefully visit the Smithsonian Museums someday.  When I found this blog about the Smithsonian Library, I just had to read through it. This blog provides articles about books being added to the library, internship and scholarships information, and events.  I really enjoyed reading the blog about the best of 2013. It shared a link to their top 5 blogs fro the year 2013.  They also add their tweets to their blog.

4. http://libraryashleyschool.blogspot.com/p/library-displays.html

I like how this elementary school librarian used a blog to deliver information to students, parents and teachers. She posts pictures of displays, hours of operation, library rules, top 10 popular books, and videos of her lessons.  

5. http://schoollibrarydisplays.blogspot.com/

I will definitely use this blog in my future as a librarian.  The pictures of various library displays are so creative.  I sometimes get "Creative Block"when trying to decorate a bulletin board in my 3rd grade class.  So this will be a neat blog that I will refer to when I get "Librarian Creative Block". LOL