Library Blogs and a place to keep them all straight...

Blogs for me are a wonderful thing.  I love them, read them, and get sucked down into them.  Just like following the white rabbit down the hole, I go from one post to another, which leads to another, and so on.  But sometimes I just don't have tons of time to read them all so I needed a way to keep up with my blogs and have a place to go back to read them when I had time.  I had already been using Flipboard for other ways to see news and such, but I didn't know I could also use it for keeping up with my blogs, but after doing a little searching, voila, you sure can!  I created a "magazine" to keep my library blogs in and just titled it "Library Blogs".  The thing I like about Flipboard is that I have it on my iPad, Android phone, and of course my computer.  I also like how you "flip" the pages on your mobile device and it feels like a magazine or book.  With Flipboard you can also share your magazines and your entire boards.  If you look to the right you will see I have added my Flipboard Library Blogs magazine. Flipboard can also share to my social media if I want it to.  The cost for Flipboard is....free!

The website is www.flipboard.com There are many more out there as well.  Here was a site I used to compare.   http://www.slant.co/topics/446/compare/~feedly_vs_inoreader_vs_newsblur  You may find one suits your needs better.

So now let's talk blogs and ones I like.  I have been following Naomi Bates for about 9 months.  I found her blog last fall when I had to do a podcast on an innovative person in library science.  Her blog is:  http://naomibates.blogspot.com/ And the thing I like about her blog is she covers lots of books and usually gives a grade level range for what she thinks it is for.  She also covers some technology and author information.

Another blog I recently found has a blog and a tumblr blog.  The links are  http://yabooknerd.blogspot.com/   for the regular blog and  http://yabooknerdlibrarian.tumblr.com/   for the tumblr blog.  She mainly posts book reviews for young adult books, on occasion she will post something else.  I like that she reads about 300 books a year and gives lots of reviews.  It is helpful when I haven't read a book to have recommendations for students.  Her tumblr is mainly reposts and some have to do with libraries and some are just fun posts.

The next blog I found through a discussion board.  I also won a book from her!  Her blog is http://booksbypamelathompson.blogspot.com/ I really like her reviews and they are usually of books I've not heard of.  Last spring I commented on one of her blog posts and was chosen to win that book.  I haven't read it yet, but I really want to...maybe later this summer.  :)

The tumblr blog I really like is http://epicreads.tumblr.com/ because it is a great resource for new and upcoming books, if you like this book, read this, and just fun booky type stuff like videos, gifs and memes.  

The last blog I am going to highlight is for library displays.  I find this will be useful when I have a library to keep my creative juices going to have displays that will draw students into reading, because isn't that what it's all about?  Getting students reading.  http://schoollibrarydisplays.blogspot.com/

I did create my own tumblr and will be posting things there...for fun and for teens wanting reading ideas.  Go check it out:

Book Stuff For Teens Tumblr