Ahoy. Welcome to my blog.
Howdy, folks.
My name is Kelly, and I’m a third-year student in the joint Masters of Library and Information Studies and Masters of Archival Studies program at the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. Or, the MLIS/MAS program at SLAIS at UBC, for short.
So, I’ve had blogs before, starting with a livejournal account with a dreadful color scheme, way back as a first-year undergrad. But it’s a new school year, and a perfect time for a new blog, this time special for my LIBR 559 course, which is focused on social media for information professionals.
I’ll leave you with a link to Catherine O’Sullivan’s 2005 Calvin Pease award-winning article, Diaries, On-line Diaries, and the Future Loss to Archives; or, Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers Who Blog Them. She has an intriguing argument about how blogs form personal “papers,” and the issues involved in longterm preservation of ’em. (From American Archivist, vol. 68, no. 1.)
