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Joyce Valenza

It's not a contest but . . .
August 27, 2008

I just came across All a Twitter, an article in the July issue of SLJ.

It is truly a wonderful introduction to one of my very favorite ways to keep up and one of the easiest ways to build a professional learning network. In fact, I wish I'd written it myself.

A side bar in the article listed the "10 Most Followed Librarians on Twitter."

Here they are:

Jessamyn West (jessamyn) 1,200
Connie Crosby (conniecrosby) 1,188
Andrea Mercado (andreamercado) 698
K.G. Schneider (kgs) 606
David Lee King (davidleeking) 548
Amy Kearns (akearns) 463
Michael Stephens (mstephens7) 429
Michael Sauers (msauers) 396
Blake Carver (LISNews) 374
Beth Gallaway (infogdss29) 321

Just one little bitty issue.

I may be wrong, but as much as I admire (and follow) most of these very talented colleagues, I don't believe any of them are school librarians.

I know that School Library Journal loves all of its youth services librarian readers, including those thousands of us who work in schools.

We tweet too.

And so I hope that author Ellyssa Kroski won't mind it if I add some school librarians to her list highly followed colleagues. Here are just a few of the school librarians I follow:

Kathy Schrock (kathyschrock) 1069 (She's a tech coordinator now, but will always be a librarian to me.)
Kim Cofino (mscofino) 812
Joyce Valenza (joycevalenza) 739
Judy O'Connell (heyjudeonline) 625
Cathy Nelson (cathyjo) 585
Diane Cordell (dmcordell) 402
Margo Jantzi (mjantzi) 389
Carolyn Foote (technolibrary) 299

I know I've left folks out. And I know that for many school librarians, professional learning networks extend to include many colleagues (far too many to mention) in the worlds of education and ed tech.

Please forgive me for my omissions and please feel free to add to my list in your comments.

Posted by Joyce Valenza on August 27, 2008 | Comments (3)

August 28, 2008
In response to: It's not a contest but . . .
Brenda D Anderson commented:

Thanks for the list Joyce. I have been looking for more library media specialists to follow. Please add me brendadanderson and I will be tweeting.

August 30, 2008
In response to: It's not a contest but . . .
Diane Cordell commented:

I'm happy to be in such distinguished company! Just want to point out that Carolyn Foote would probably have a much larger following if her updates weren't protected. We're always happy to welcome new librarian Tweets, so come join us. Benefits include links to resources, help when troubleshooting problems, fun & fellowship.

August 31, 2008
In response to: It's not a contest but . . .
joycevalenza commented:

Right about Carolyn. This short list simply makes the point. So many others wonderful Tweeters are out there. I am hoping that at the SLJ Summit, and in Charlotte, we will see many more TLs benefiting from and contributing to the Twittesphere!