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Keeping Up To Date

(Via STLQ) Recently, Michael Leach, a librarian at Harvard's Kummel Library and Physics Research Library, posed the following question on PAMnet, the listserv of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics division of SLA:

With so much information appearing daily, weekly and monthly, I am curious as to how each of you "keeps up to date" and "filters" the information you need to run your libraries effectively. I am interested to learn what web sites, journals (print and/or electronic; scholarly and/or "newsy"), blogs, discussion lists, etc., you find most useful, and to which of these you regularly turn to for information. ... Specifically, I want to learn what resources you turn to for: 1) keeping up to date for librarian/practitioner info, especially trends in the profession, new services, and emerging technology; 2) keeping up with the current scientific research that your library supports.

The responses generated quite an interesting assortment of blogs, journals, and websites, the summary of which Leach posted to PAMnet on April 14. I won't reproduce the entire list, just the first two categories. There were a few there that I hadn't encountered previously.

Blogs:

Journals:

Posted by Tom on April 16, 2004