blogwithoutalibrary.net » state of the library blogosphere, 2006
Amanda Etches-Johnson of blogwithoutalibrary.net has produced some interesting graphs about the state of the library blogosphere. (When writing this, I just noticed that she didn’t use the term “biblioblogosphere” — thank goodness.) Of particular interest to me was the statistic that 12% of academic library blogs have been inactive since the last time Amanda did her survey. She notes some of the reasons that might explain this and I can concur with most of them from personal experience. Sometimes blogs — and wikis — are greeted with much enthusiasm by library administration because they give the impression of being progressive and change-oriented. But these new tools (and that is how I think of them, as tools) require a significant amount of ongoing investment, and it is this part that is ignored or overlooked sometimes.
