This page contains links to key librarianship and related sites and blogs. It's primarily a blogroll, but the boundaries are fuzzy, containing links to other sites.

Key links
Librarianship sites

My favourite librarianship personal blogs

Technology blogs

Research blogs

Key links

• CILIP Members Blog Landscape - the combined blogs of CILIP members at various stages of their career, including my own. It's a good place to find others with similar interests.
• The UK Library Blog Wiki - another blog resource with institutional, individual, chartership and industry blogs.
• Sheffield Information Studies Department - the department where I am studying for my MA in Librarianship.
• Nottingham Learning Sciences Research Institute - the interdepartmental institute where I undertook my PhD, it studies the science of learning, with a particular focus on the use of technologies.

Librarianship sites

• CILIP - the UK's Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals, of which I am a member.
• Google Knol - a Knol with information about library and information studies courses, mainly focused on the UK.
• Libraryschool wiki - a wiki with information about library school, mainly focused on the US in terms of courses etc.
• Essex University Trainees - the pages for graduate trainees at the university library where I undertook mine.

My favourite librarianship personal blogs

• That Black Book - Lisa, graduate trainee at Essex the year after me.
• Megs / Musings - Megan, took the librarianship course at Sheffield the year before me.
• Organising Chaos - "a student, law librarian, armchair psychologist and sci-fi fan".
• Joeyanne Libraryanne - "Resources Librarian... studying for a Masters in LIS".
• Llordllama's Llibrarian Lleanings - "librarian/repository manager working in UK HE".
• Jennie Law - "Library Monkey for a law firm in Edinburgh, Scotland".
• Information Literacy Weblog - frequently updated Information Literacy news.
• Phil Bradley - widely-acknowledged library tech guru.
• Lorcan Dempsey - Vice President, OCLC Programs and Research and Chief Strategist.

Technology blogs

• Boxes and Arrows - user interface reflections.
• We Make Money Not Art - artistic uses of technology.
• Popgadget - shiny toys, focused towards women, but fairly universal.
• Babygadget - like Popgadget, but for babies.

Research blogs

• Bad Science - notorious science commentator Ben Goldacre.
• BPS research digest - great overview of Psychology research.
• Improbable Research - the more random side of research.

Links last checked 14 July 2009.