Carnival: Why Do We Blog? MLS/MIS Students.

A little over a week ago, I asked why do we blog? I wanted to hear from both current and past MIS/MLS students to see why they, as students who juggle school, work, and a personal life, find time to maintain their blogs. It's not that as students we are any busier than anyone else who makes the time to write, it's just that I thought that we as a particular sub-group of bloggers might have interesting reasons and inspiration for doing what we do. I wasn't disappointed. So, without further ado and in no particular order:

Lindsay at I Like Dust has a post on why she blogs:

In my very first post I described why I created this blog: to document my experience as an MLS graduate student, specifically as an MLS graduate student in an archives track/program…

Jen at the Canuck Librarian answers what Everyone wants to know...:

I was on my co-op term during my MLIS at an academic library when I started blogging. One day a librarian was in my office, showing me the chat reference software and telling me all about how to do virtual reference and then somehow we started talking about blogs...

Joy at Wanderings of a Student Librarian tells why she blogs:

My blog started out, in the summer of 2004, as a kind of annotated bookmark keeper--with maybe half a thought to eventually being a kind of electronic portfolio. I formulated a new mission for my blog around January of this year for several reasons...

Another response comes from Mark at ...the thoughts are broken... who says:

This question seems to be one that I have to constantly revisit myself as it recurs across the blogosphere in different contexts, and in my own life. The answer is an ever evolving one for me...

Last, but not least, Laura at lis.dom gives her own reasons on why she blogs in her own unique style:

The snarkier part of my nature is of course tempted to say "Because I can" and/or "Because I'm good at it"--two responses often given by Famous Authors who have been asked Why They Write. I am not a Famous Author (I mean, really, I'm not even dead yet!), and such a response would seem pretty obnoxious even if I were...

I'm tempted to give my own reasons here, but you already have five excellent posts to read through today, so I'll leave it for another time. But, I can say that part of the reason I blog is for this exact kind of collaboration. Blogging gives me an opportunity to meet really great people who are intelligent, thoughtful and expressive. People who I may have not met otherwise. There are other reasons, but that one stands out.