It seems wherever I go in the libary world, people are discussing the future of print newsletters; should we continue to publish, just dissminate a link to the “print” version, ditch the print altogether in favor of a blog or some hybrid of the choices? The conversations seem to parallel our earlier discussions about print vs. online periodicals. As of today, Blogpulse, a service of Nielsen BuzzMetrics reports 73,703, 197 identified blogs, 93,041 created within the last 24 hours. Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia New Media Professor and WNBC-TV Tech Reporter commented last week that most blogs are read by two people: the author and his/her mother. But how many print newsletters get tossed in the circular file without a glance; how much paper and ink is wasted on their production; and how dated is the information due to time lapses between compilation, editing, printing and distribution? What is your library doing?
Newletter Quandries
May 15, 2008 by Prof. Spiegelman
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