The Kept-Up Academic Librarian

This Is The Last Post

After nearly 8 years, 5,000 posts and 500,000 page views, this is the last post at Kept-Up Academic Librarian. It has been a good run but the need for this blog is diminished and even though the time it takes to compose it each day is not great, it is time I could use for other activities. Now with so many others sharing higher education news on social networks, along with other sources such as University Business' daily update, Academic Impressions and daily news items in the Chronicle and IHE, it's clear there is less need - and that is supported by the stagnant usage data. 

I'll leave the site up for a few more months, but if your library has a link to KUAL, you will probably want to remove it.

I appreciate all the visits to this blog, and I hope it has been useful over the years. I always tried to find stories that were not reported elsewhere or could be of more interest to academic librarians. I hope you'll continue to follow me at Designing Better Libraries or you can follow me on Twitter - blendedlib (I'm also now on Branch - where I hope to continue some writing on current events  in higher education).

Thanks again - and I hope you'll continue to stay" Kept-Up" with the world of higher education. If you have a recommendation for another source or individual to follow for keeping up with higher education, please feel free to add it as a comment.

Best,

Steven

Bloglines Subscribers Can Follow KUAL On Twitter

As you now know Bloglines will no longer be in service as of October 1. Based on daily tracking data, many KUAL readers are using Bloglines to follow posts to KUAL. Some of you will likely switch to Google Reader, but if you are giving up on news aggregators all together you can still follow KUAL on Twitter. Just follow me at www.twitter.com/blendedlib

Expecting A Slow Week

As higher education takes a break next week it's likely things will be on the slow side here at KUAL. Maybe a few posts here and there. So perhaps this is a good time for me to says thanks to all of you for your continued readership - and to new folks who are just discovering KUAL as a source of information about higher education. The number of visits and posts read continues to grow, and I appreciate that. So have a good holiday and a great new year. Here's looking to more news and information about higher education in 2008.

KUAL Will Have A Guest Blogger The Next Two Weeks

Even The Kept-Up Academic Librarian gets to take a vacation once a year. This time it's a long one - two weeks. While the KUAL is galivanting about he has arranged for a guest blogger to continue the good work of keeping you, the reader, up-to-date with news and events from the world of higher education. Michael Krasulski, librarian extraordinaire at Philadelphia University, will be your host here at KUAL for the next two weeks beginning next Monday, October 8. As always, many thanks for reading and supporting The Kept-Up Academic Librarian.

Enjoyed Seeing You At ALA

Thanks to everyone who stopped to say hello to me at ALA in DC. It was great to hear from so many people who read KUAL - and I really appreciate those who told me how much you enjoy the blog and look forward to the posts. It is great to know that KUAL is helping others to stay kept up with higher education news and developments. Now - to get back to your regularly scheduled program...

Limited Posts The Next Two Days

I'll be attending the ACRL conference in Baltimore over the next few days so posts will be limited, if there are posts at all. I will be attempting to do more conference blogging for ACRLog. If you are going to be at the ACRL conference, please say hello if you spot me.

Limited Posts Until The New Year

It's unlikely a whole lot will be happening in the higher education industry next week. Therefore posts to KUAL will be limited until January 2, 2007. I hope all KUAL readers have a good holiday break, and that your institution is one of those that closes for the days between Christmas and New Year's Day. Best wishes for a great 2007. It's sure to be an interesting year for higher education and academic libraries. And, as always, thanks for reading KUAL.

Kept-Up Goes On Vacation Next Week

It's vacation time. I am taking a week off from posting here. Hopefully it will be a relatively quiet week in the world of higher education, but somehow I doubt it. I will look forward to sharing news from higher education starting again on Monday, July 31.

If you want to use the time you would ordinarily spend reading KUAL posts on trying something new, you may want to give my higher education reading list a try. You can use it to quickly add higher education news feeds to your news aggregator (if you aren't using one, such as bloglines, now is a good time to start). I have instructions on the page on how to get the reading list file, and how to import it into your aggregator.

If you have any suggestions for feeds to add to the list, please submit them as a comment to this post - or just let me know if the reading list worked for you.

Thanks again for reading KUAL - and I hope you have a good week.

You May Notice What Look Like Duplicate Posts

Owing to some problems at Typepad yesterday I appear to have lost all the posts I added yesterday. I have copied them into the blog again and they are showing up as new posts. If you read them yesterday, sorry for the duplication.

Limited Posts Until Next Wednesday

I will be attending the American Library Association conference in New Orleans starting tomorrow. During this time posts to Kept-Up will be limited. I will look forward to resuming regular posting on Wednesday the 28th. If you are at ALA, please say hello if our paths cross. As always, thanks for using and supporting Kept-Up.