Popular Librarian Blogs

Librarian resources that are fun to read

There are hundreds of blogs on the Internet related to the life and work of the librarian, and new ones are appearing every day. The following is a brief list of some of the more popular blogs for librarians and those interested in the varied ways in which librarians engage their daily work.

  • Brary Web Diva - Blog of a public librarian from Lansing, Illinois.
  • Conservator - Blog about libraries, freedom, and the politics of librarianship from librarian Jack Stephens.
  • Convivial Librarian - Blog of an electronic services librarian smack-dab in the Midwest.
  • Crafty Librarian - Blog about arts, crafts, and librarianship from a librarian in Chicago.
  • Digital Reference - Blog of a librarian in New York.
  • Dispatches from a Public Librarian - Blog of a public librarian nestled somewhere in Orange County, California.
  • Distant Librarian, The - From the Distance Education Librarian at the University of Calgary.
  • Edifice Ref - One librarian's blog on reference services, technology, and the future of academic libraries.
  • eLiterate Librarian - Blog from an information architect working in a corporate library. Includes posts about technology, libraries, and librarianship.
  • Feel-good Librarian - Blog of a librarian at the reference desk of a Midwestern library.
  • Infomancy - Library news blog from the leader of a school library system in New York.
  • Information Literacy Land of Confusion - Blog discussing library user education, library instruction, librarianship, and information literacy.
  • Information Wants To Be Free - A librarian blogs about on the profession and the tools librarians use to serve their patrons.
  • Lethal Librarian - Blog about library school and the library profession.
  • Librarian Loose on the Web - Chronicles health librarianship, including health policy, search strategies, library catalogs, open access, and other information science topics.
  • Librarian Way - Blogging library technologies and online resources for librarians.
  • Librarian.net - A blog that chronicles librarian culture.
  • LibrarianInBlack - Blogging technology news and information science issues for the tech-librarians-by-default among us.
  • Library+Technology Smorgasbord - Blog of a jack-of-all-trades librarian doing reference, instruction, collection management, and outreach at a college in Ohio. Focuses on emerging technology in instruction and reference.
  • LibraryTechtonics - Blog from a librarian interested in reference, research, project coordination, library technology, and other information science issues.
  • Loomware: Crafting New Libraries - Personal blog of a university librarian.
  • Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog - News and analysis of library issues, services, and networks by Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist at OCLC.
  • Outgoing - Blogging library metadata technique, trends, news, and analysis from Thom Hickey, Chief Scientist at OCLC.
  • Phil Bradley's Weblog - Blog covering Internet searching, web design, and search engine developments.
  • Ruminations - Thoughts and musings from a librarian in Perth, Western Australia.
  • SHUSH - Blog for conservative librarians.
  • Tame the Web: Libraries and Technology - Blog written by a librarian, technology trainer and writer living in Northern Indiana.
  • Teen Librarian - An online community for young adult librarians.