Technorati and library blogs

I thought I would see what national libraries are blogging about. I found one about the National Library of Belarus, but was held back by my knowledge of Russian. Prague's proposed new national library has been getting coverage in lots of blogs. Here is one example of this. There are many other examples of posts about national libraries, but with a fairly small number of blogs by National Libraries. There is a really interesting library technology blog from the National Library of New Zealand

Hiding in the National Library blogs was one of fan fiction about West Wing.

I also had a look at state library options. Not just our state library, but other state libraries in other places as well. There has been a series of posts about visits to the Bavarian State Library, references to a report commissioned by the Indiana State Library about the value of libraries, and lots more. You can even set up a technorati search as an rss feed, but I will leave that until next week. Blog specifically by state libraries include one by Connecticut, Washington (including a meebo link), South Carolina (for IT matters), Oregon and Iowa.

I was not specifically looking for Australian examples but SLV does have one about their summer reading program.

I liked the way each library was using its blog for its own reasons. I really like the State Library of Washington blog and the National Library of New Zealand blog about technology..

I will do a search later for public library blogs - but that is my 15 minutes for today (and yesterday).