A Journey From Weblog to Library Blog
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2008-02-28
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INFLIBNET Center
Abstract
During the past two decades, internet has evolved with many new techniques and tools such as Email
list, Bulletin board, Listserves, Usenet, IRC, Wikis and Blog. These have been becoming an
important part of virtual community and contribute to human life in various aspects like social,
educational, political and business. In this web-world, probably weblog (so called blog), has become
the newest communication medium that publish “what’s new” page online. In other sense, it is a
supplement web page as well as a referring tool to promote its regular web-site, by refreshing and
updating news. Blog may indeed be a greater milestone in the history of publishing. In this article,
author have stressed fundamentally on blogs and their global proliferation and implementation for
libraries. Also the solid motive behind the title entitled “A journey from weblog to library blog” is to
indicate the role of weblog and how it would helpful to library in all means for creating a social
network among e-library environment.
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Blog, Library blog, RSS, Aggregator, Headline Syndication, Content Development