1. Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk
Using Blogs, Micro-blogs and Social Networks in Your Library Case Study 1b: The JISC PoWR Blog
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath, UK
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2. Contents Case Study Introduction Case Studies
Case Study 1b: The JISC PoWR Blog
Background • Launching
Sustaining • Learning
Reasons For Having a Library Blog
Beyond Blogs: Micro-blogs and Social Networks
What are the Barriers? [exercise]
Addressing the Barriers
Sharing Best Practices
What Next?

3. Purpose The JISC PoWR blog:
Supported the JISC-funded PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) project
Launched in April 2008
A team blog (ULCC, UKOLN and consultant) with 6 authors

4. Hosting The Blog Challenges: Two main services (UKOLN and ULCC)
Focus is preservation of institutional resources
Funded by JISC
Where to host (UKOLN, ULCC, 3rd party?):
Selected the JISC Involve hosting service:

5. Content on the Blog
Where to store details of project workshops, workshop resources, final report, etc?
Decided to use the blog

6. Contributing To The Blog
Although a team blog, team members had differing levels of engagement
This reflected differing working styles (e.g. those who were more comfortable editing 100-page final report)

7. Strengths and Weaknesses
A team blog:
Shared responsibilities
Continued posting over holidays, etc.
Broad content coverage (not just one individual’s areas of interest)
Strengthens links between organisations
But:
May lacks clear ‘voice’
Pre-publication discussions may mean posts lose ‘edge’
May be seen to be too insular and self-congratulatory

8. Life after Funding Finishes
JISC PoWR project officially finished in October 2008.
Blog has continued since:
Space for writing about preservation issues of interest (e.g. preservation of Twitter posts)
Maintaining our visibility
Avoiding the blog being forgotten about:
Blog will be mothballed if we fail to post 3 posts in a month

9. Questions
Any questions?