Sheafer+S401

=Sheafer S401 (Autumn 2012) =

Hi! My name is Andrea Sheafer, and this is my first semester in the SLIS program (which I am sure you guessed, since I am taking S401...). Currently, I one of the jobs I am working is at the Carmel Clay Historical Society, and we sometimes use Facebook to reach out to the community and share interesting finds with out followers. For example, I work in the archives, and when ever I find an interesting item during my cataloging sessions, I give it to my supervisor who will often scan the item and post the image to our Facebook page. Also, we often use Facebook to help identify individuals in pictures we find in our archives. For example, we will often post a photo to Facebook, and then ask our followers if they can help us identify anything about the photo (individuals in the photo, location, year, etc.). In addition, any special events held at the Historical Society are often advertised to our followers by sharing announcements on Facebook. I am sure I will continue to use social media sites throughout my professional career, and working at the Carmel Clay Historical Society has given me a good introduction!

Here are my choices for my RSS feed:

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/

I sometimes read this blog on The Chronicle. The blogger has some interesting observations and comments about the library world.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/

In addition to the Carmel Clay Historical Society, I also work at a bookstore. As a result, we subscribe to Publishers Weekly and it is always on the break room table. It is a great way to keep up to date on newly published books.

http://www.npr.org/books/

I have been reading the NPR book reviews for many years now. Since I work in a bookstore, we have people coming in all the time asking if we carry books that they heard reviewed on an NPR program. As a result, it is almost guaranteed that the books that are reviewed on NPR will be requested at any library!

http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/feed/

I am interested in working in an academic library, and this blogger discusses issues related to academic librarianship.

http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/

I find the posts on this Library of Congress blog to be interesting and it is great to be able to read about a variety of different topics that relate to libraries and librarianship.