The blogs I pay attention to are not work-related blogs. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it is because 90% of everything is crap and I just haven't worked hard enough to find the 10% of library blogs that are worth reading. cpd23 is going some way to rectify that, by forcing me to explore the world of library blogs a bit more widely.
Browsing the list of cpd23 participants on Delicious turned out to be more fun than I'd anticipated... I dropped in on most of the health-tagged blogs, commented on one or two, and added a few more to my feed reader.
Over at (the) health informaticist the conversation turned to whether or not people actually read the feeds they're signed up to. I am big on the "mark all as read" option, but then my failure to make time to read library blogs is just part of my bigger failure to make time for anything more than the bare minimum of professional reading. I read "just in time" but never "just in case". To counter this I have started up a library journal club at work, so that keeping up-to-date with the library literature becomes as much a part of what we do as anything else.
Finally, I was surprised by a number of comments implying that health librarians are in some way less forward-thinking or technologically minded than librarians from other sectors. I saw this at Daffodils in the library and at passionatemedicallibrarian. Is this other people's experience? I have always felt that us lot in the NHS are remarkably proactive and innovative, especially given our relatively small budgets and profile.
Surfing from blog to blog, seeing what works well and what not so well, and realising just how disparate the participants of cpd23 are, has been illuminating. I'm looking forward to the next task.
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