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In this article we will identify resources for locating faculty blogs, identify some well-regarded faculty blogs worthy of review, and discuss how faculty blogs can benefit academic librarians and why we should be reading them as part of our regular keeping up routine. Our goal is to encourage our academic librarian colleagues to add more faculty blogs to their regular regimen of blog reading.

Academic Comics wiki is intended to be a resource for librarians in academic libraries who wish to add graphic novels to their collection.

To promote its forthcoming users' conference in Boston next week, Blackboard, the academic-software company, has posted to YouTube a video that parodies the awkward ways in which avatars — digital characters — move around and communicate in Second Life.

University libraries are natural users of open source software, which offers a good fit with open access to information and collaborative working.

The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2008) carries on the ICKM tradition of bringing together academics, researchers, developers, practitioners, and users in the areas of knowledge management and information processing. It offers an excellent opportunity to network with accomplished colleagues, exchange research ideas, discuss practical applications, and stay current with the latest in best practices and international trends.

Connotea [1] is a free online reference management and social bookmarking service for scientists created by Nature Publishing Group [2]. While somewhat experimental in nature, Connotea already has a large and growing number of users, and is a real, fully functioning service [3]. The label 'experimental' is not meant to imply that the service is any way ephemeral or esoteric, rather that the concept of social bookmarking itself and the application of that concept to reference management are both recent developments. Connotea is under active development, and we are still in the process of discovering how people will use it. In addition to Connotea being a free and public service, the core code is freely available under an open source license [4].

This presentation will focus on one librarian’s practical use of blogs in an effort to convey her philosophy that regardless of the technical aspects of the changing information landscape (Library 2.0?), the song, generally, remains the same when it comes to the messages subject librarians need to convey.