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* Library Journal has launched a podcast by the Library 2.0 Gang. The Information Wants to Be Free author Meredith has a post on "If I had just 15 minutes a day " to keep up, how I would do it. Take her ideas and add your own for a customized learning plan to help you stay current.
* The access to industry-leading speakers and events. Upcoming speakers include Lee Raine on Maximizing the Power of the Web: Pew Internet & American Life Project's 2007 Findings.
He will include the results of the recent Pew study showing how young people continue to use the library. Sessions are archived on the Institute site or via iTunes. April 18, 2008 (11am-12:00 pm, Eastern) Registration
* More ways to stay in tune:
OPAL Casual Conversations (1-2pm, Central)
Friday, April 11, 2008: Jenny Levine
Friday, May 16, 2008: Stephen Abram
Friday, June 6, 2008: Michael Stephens

More OPAL
Discover Your LibraryThing
Friday, April 18, 2008 (1pm

And don't overlook the value of discussing these tools with colleagues and working on them together in those "spare"moments at the library.
For this Thing,

1. Make a resolution to maintain your blog, use the tools you now know, keep up with new tools, and apply them in your library. Give yourself the gift of time—15 minutes a day, a Webinar now and then, conversations with colleagues about Library 2.0, whatever—but don't quit now! Put your resolution writing in your blog!

2. Every day, ask yourself, "What did I learn today?" Record your responses in your blog.

So here are some Web sites and blogs to add to your RSS aggregator. There are dozens more—choose ones that speak to you.

Library Web 2.0 Blogs

• Mostly News

• ALA TechSource
• LibraryBytes
  
• Librarian in Black
• LISNews
• Library Stuff

• News and Commentary

• Tame the Web
• Shifted Librarian
• Information Wants To Be Free
• Blue Skunk Blog
• Dangeroulsy Irrelevant
• NeverEnding Search
  

• General Web 2.0
• Lifehacker
• 43Folders

• Web 2.0 Directories
• Web2
• Go2Web
• Web2List
  

• Other Ways to Keep Up
• WebJunction-Minnesota offers newsletters, online courses, and other content (free to Minnesota users, thanks to MINITEX, State Library Services, and Metronet).
• OPAL has many online opportunities both live and in its archives to learn about library-related things—Library 2.0, technology, and more.
• Webinars from MINITEX and other sources
• Podcasts on Web 2.0 and library topics—find a few you like and add them to your RSS aggregator.
  

That’s enough. Glance through these, add the ones you like to your RSS aggregator, use others as needed. And remember, you can delete entries from your aggregator, too.

Blog Prompts

• Blog about how you plan to keep up with the Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 tools.
• Recommend a way to keep up that you have found useful.