This team blog was created in 2003 by the librarian at the U.S. embassy in Oslo. Posting to ircworld is open to staff of more than 100 overseas libraries and information resource centers (IRCs - see http://ircworld.blogspot.com/worldlist.html) and to the corps of U.S. State Department Information Resource Officers (professional librarians who are also foreign service officers and who supervise the State Department's overseas library program)

Postings fall into two categories:
1.resources/technology of interest to librarians and 2.information/news about public diplomacy which is the overarching purpose of these IRCs

The site provides RSS streams from a number of library and (a few) public diplomacy blogs. Nearly all postings are by the Oslo IRC librarian, who would very much like to see more IRCs contributing..Lots of interesting stuff, check it out!