new MLIS student looking for some good reading!

May 29, 2009 9:30 AM

What are good blogs and resources for MLIS students?

I just found out I was accepted to Drexel University for my MLIS with a nice fellowship. My background is mostly in law and psychology (looking to be a law librarian possibly), so I want to update my RSS reader with some new relevant blogs and resources.

Who should I be paying attention to? What websites should I live by? Anything else you can recommend to better prepare me?

Thanks I look forward to your responses!

posted by ginagina to education (5 comments total)

Well, it's not for MLIS students in particular, but Law Librarian Blog just gave a list of the 50 best blogs for law librarians.
posted by aswego at 9:52 AM on May 29

I hear librarian.net is pretty good.
posted by box at 10:39 AM on May 29

Oh nice one aswego!

Thanks box, Jessamyn's site was already on my radar, I am on askmefi after all!
posted by ginagina at 11:20 AM on May 29 [1 favorite has favorites]

lisnews
ala tech source blog
ACRL blog
posted by ephemerista at 12:58 PM on May 29

As someone who currently works in a law library, these are my recommendations (though definitely seek out more, from professors and other students, when you get to school!):

I imagine it's on the top 50 list linked to above, but here's the link to the American Association of Law Libraries' RSS feeds.
I also really like LISnews, which is updated frequently.
I like Resource Shelf for interesting news as well as info on new resources, etc.
I like Unshelved---though I am by no means a public librarian---because it's wildly amusing, and you can laugh at some of the library-wide things that drive you crazy.

Also, on a more general 'preparation for school' note, if there is any kind of social interaction being planned before school starts or in that first week or so, go for it. I went to a technology review sort of thing a few weeks before, and that's where my friends come from--the closest friends I have from library school, I met before it started.
posted by librarylis at 6:09 PM on May 30