A study on the usage and establishment experiences of the personal Blog from Academic Librarians

• Main Authors: Pin-Chun Lin, 林品君
• Other Authors: Hsiao-Tieh Pu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50881290274238710701

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會教育學系在職進修碩士班 === 95 === With the rapid development of the Internet Technology, a great variety of means of communication has emerged, especially Blogs. The Four Zero characteristics (zero technology, zero cost, zero edition, zero format) of the Blogs are widely used and applied in the educational and social environments, and have a great acknowledged impact among the society. The trend of using the Blogs has been emphasized in the domain of the Library and Information Science and is called for the implementation in the application of its services. In the recent years, more and more personnel of the Academic Librarian have been trying to apply the Blogs into their services offered. However, the establishment experiences and the personal usage of the Blogs are even more important, as the accomplishment of the Academic Librarian’s Blog might influence the quality of the institute’s Blog. This study focuses on the usage and establishment experiences of the Blog from Academic Librarians, so as to build up a reference for either future library Blog application or the characteristics of Academic Librarians’ community. Questionnaires are mainly used in this study, covering 87 universities in Taiwan. 456 out of 751 samples are successfully received. Besides, semi-structured interviews are used to obtain a more complete study toward this issue where the 4 mostly mentioned bloggers are interviewed. Results show that the Blogs are widely used among the personnel of the Academic Librarian, chiefly to share personal knowledge and life. The Academic Librarian gets to know the source of the Blogs through 「Friends & relatives」or「Searching engines」. The knowledge-type Blogs are mostly used; Topics concerning Library and Information Science are most popular among Academic Librarians. Compared to other means of internet communication, such as BBS or personal websites, the Academic Librarian tend to read into details when reading Blogs, and pay much attention to the frequency of the update as well as its reliability and the copy rights. 60 percent of the respondents are experienced in the build up of Blogs, most of which are Diary-type Blogs , followed by Knowledge-type Blogs. As for the content, the main information provided in the Academic Librarian personal Blogs is primarily about sharing「after-reading thoughts」、「working and learning experiences」and 「article translations」. Then regarding the aim of the Blogs, information exchange between business partners is mostly expected. Concerning the difficulties encountered during the build up of the Academic Librarian personal Blogs are「time and effort spent for the maintenance of Blogs」、「platform selection and transfer」、「Blog content and backup」and「template design」etc. However, the main solution used is trying to solve the problem by oneself and ask for help from experienced people. The Academic Librarians recognize the positive impact of the Blogs to personal learning and knowledge sharing.