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Brian Mathews
is Associate Dean for Learning & Outreach at Virginia Tech. This blog is about designing better user experiences and the pursuit of use-sensitive libraries.
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In his new book, Brian Mathews speaks directly to the academic library practitioner. The guiding principle, that marketing should focus on the lifestyle of the user, showcases how the library fits within the daily life of students.
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May 16, 2010, 1:21 pm
200th post = 4 years
By Brian Mathews
So here we go. 200th post. It’s taken me four
years to get here, but that’s not too bad. It averages out to about a post per
month. Ideally I aim for one every two weeks, give or take a week. By some
accounts that’s very slow. Will Manley
cracked 100 posts in less than 6 months. And Steven Bell probably has 2,000+
over at The KeptUp Librarian (circa
2003.) But hey—tons of library blogs have gone under, and happily I’m still
here.
I’m in the process of retagging everything. My taxonomy has
gotten way out of wack and so over the next several days I’m going to hack at
it. I’m also going to play around with some different themes and typepad tools.
I never really considered myself a blogger, just a guy who uses a blog to tell
a story… but now, after four years, I guess I should embrace the blogger
image. What I’m saying is I’m
going to try and make the blog look and…
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