Blogs and Blog Readers

Feedly 
When I first read the term 'feed readers', I felt like I was reading something in a foreign language. I have never heard this term before, and I initially thought that it was like the news feed on Facebook or other popular social media websites.

After reading up on what a feed reader actually is, I was completely impressed with the idea of an app that allows multiple blogs that I'm interested in to be viewed on one screen. This is a great time saver for me, as I am not having to go back and forth between multiple websites to read about different perspectives that are all on the same subject.

The feed reader that I chose is Feedly. I love the way this app is organized, and it is pretty easy to navigate when adding different blogs to my feed. I enjoy it so much that I have two accounts set up: one professional and one for my personal interests.

Two of the blogs that I added to my Feedly are two that I also follow on Twitter: YALSABlog and School Library Journal. I enjoy their tweets and posts so much that when I saw them on Feedly I just had to add them. Their blogs always give up to date information that interests me and gives me ideas to try in my own library.

As a first year librarian, I was always looking for new ways to display books in my library, or to promote them using bulletin boards. This is the reason I decided to add Library Displays to my Feedly. This blog gives so many creative and innovative ways to display books. I am definitely looking forward to trying some this upcoming school year.

I am a big advocate for my library and am passionate about being an advocate for all libraries and the wonderful things that take place in them. This is why I added The Library Voice blog to my Feedly. This blog gives creative ways to be an advocate, as well as new ideas on technology, books, and collaboration with teachers and other staff members.

Although I am currently an elementary school librarian, I might one day decide to move up to secondary, which is why I follow The True Adventures of a High School Librarian. Getting insight on this profession through the eyes of someone who has done it for a while is a great way for me to see if being a secondary school librarian is a good fit for me.

I signed up for a Tumblr account when I was taking another class for my MLS degree. When searching for school libraries on this website, I realized that most of the schools that have a Tumblr use it to promote all of the different and wonderful things that are taking place in their libraries. There are also some pages that simply advocate for literacy and libraries. I follow a few pages, but am still working on adding posts to my account. Here is the link to my Tumblr page.