LIBRARY BLOGS to subscribe to by RSS Feed: 

·        Amanda Etches-Johnson’s blog without a library.  Amanda is a Reference librarian at McMaster U. and teaches blog/RSS courses for OLA.  She collects lists of blogs, including school library blogs, on this site.  http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/

RSS FEED:  http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/?feed=rss2

·        Doug Johnson, an original defender of T-Ls, of Mankato schools fame. Blue Skunk Blog continues Doug Johnson’s thoughts.        http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/

 R   RSS FEED:  http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/rss.xml

·        Edugadget by Steve Brooks, an ICT teacher who explains techie gadgets in PLAIN language and suggests classroom use. See PBWIKI post http://www.edugadget.com/ 

RSS FEED:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/edugadget

·        Infotangle  Elyssa Kroski’s blog.  Elyssa is a Reference librarian at Columbia Univ. in NYC.  She has some wonderful overviews of what is happening on the web right now.  Her posts are articles.  http://infotangle.blogsome.com/

RSS FEED:  http://infotangle.blogsome.com/comments/feed/

·        The famous Michael Stephens, currently a leading thinker in the web 2.0 -  Library discussion:  Tame the Web   http://tametheweb.com/

RSS FEED:  http://tametheweb.com/index.xml

·        ALA Techsource Blog  Michael Stephens & Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian), Karen Schneider (Librarians’ Index to the Internet).   http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/

 RSS FEED: http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/index.rss

·        Joyce Valenza’s NeverEnding Search (a T-L from Springfield High School who lives in Philadelphia):Emerging technologies & learning  http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/ 

RSS FEED:  http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/feed/

·        Jenny Levine is the Shifted Librarian, a Chicago librarian pushing technology to support library programs and patrons.  http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/

RSS FEED:  http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/index.xml

·        Meredith Farkas writes the Information Wants To Be Free blog.  She is an academic librarian in Vermont, famous for her wikis. http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php

RSS FEED:  http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/wp-rss2.php

·        Gary Price is the editor of Resource Shelf, a newsletter that keeps librarians up-to-date with new websites daily  http://www.resourceshelf.com/

RSS FEED:  http://www.resourceshelf.com/resourceshelf.xml

·        Weblogg-ed  Will Richardson’s blog (Hunterdon High School), author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other powerful web tools for classrooms (Corwin Press).Will has probably received more awards for tech integration in education than anyone else in N. America.    http://www.weblogg-ed.com/

      RSS FEED: http://www.weblogg-ed.com/xml/rss.xml

·        Stephen’s Lighthouse is Stephen Abrams’ blog (Sirsi Dynix VP)  http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/

RSS FEED:  http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/index.rdf

·        SuperPatron is Edward Vielmetti’s blog from Ann Arbor public library.  An international “friends of the library” blog. http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/

RSS FEED:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/Superpatron