The Value of Blogs in Medical Librarianship

I’ve been taking advantage of blogs in my work as a medical librarian for a while. I subscribe to quite a few and read them daily (sometimes twice daily) to keep up with what’s happening in the medical librarianship field as well as in technology advances, health policy and health reform. In the organization where I work now, there is no intranet, so a blog may not be doable unless we added one to our web site. Whether visitors to our web site would participate (or whether our own staff would participate) is another matter. Since many in the org tend to be technophobic, I know that I have to move very slowly to implement new things.