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There are Real People in There? Blogging at the University of Worcester.

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Williams, Paul (2008) There are Real People in There? Blogging at the University of Worcester. UKSG Serials, 21 (1). pp. 9-13. ISSN 0953-0460

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Communication has long been one of the major issues facing us in the library profession. Communication with our users, with our wider organisation and even amongst ourselves had been highlighted at the University of Worcester as an area in need of vast improvement, and in 2004 we took our first tentative steps into the Web 2.0 world as a potential method for providing the library with a much needed presence.

This paper aims to demonstrate our evolution from static web pages, delivering half-hearted and wildly sporadic attempts at news, to an institution fronted by an actual human voice. I’ll aim to show that Web 2.0 is ironically not about technology, but about the style of communication it encourages, and how we’ve been able to use these applications to return to some of the traditional values of librarianship in a truly modern, relevant way.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	blogs, blogging, communication tools, library, libraries, University of Worcester
Subjects:	Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Divisions:	Central Services > Library Services
Depositing User:	Paul Williams
Date Deposited:	03 Apr 2008 15:40
Last Modified:	08 Jun 2021 09:25
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/370

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