Knowbodies is a current awareness blog that provides news about websites, technology, resources, applications, trends and all manner of information that might be of interest to librarians and others with a professional interest in finding information. A secondary focus of the blog is international relations and public diplomacy; the reason for that is that the precursor to this blog, the now retired ircworld, originated in the community of nearly 180 information resource centers (IRCs), libraries and American centers located at U.S.embassies and consulates in more than 140 countries. The present blog is private, has no affiliation with the U.S. government, and welcomes postings from librarians outside the U.S. embassy community.

Knowbodies seeks to emulate the many useful library blogs and current awareness sites that exist on the net, and aggregates a selection of them in the Pageflakes pagecast "Knowbodies: libraries & technology."

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Librarians and others with an interest these matters are encouraged to become part of the community and contribute posts to the blog – if you’d like to join, send an email to signon@knowbodies.info Editorial guidelines are simple; content should be consistent with the scope and focus outlined above. Posts that are obscene, slanderous or disrespectful will not be tolerated, unless they are very funny.

The patron saint of this site is the fellow in Carl Spitzweg's 1850 painting "The Bookworm"