[Publib] Library newspaper columns and blogs?

[Sue Bowser]

Who's doing local newspaper columns and archiving the columns on your
library website?

It certainly isn't a full blown column, but every week in the Book Page of
the Lancaster Sunday News I have a column listing five books on a related
theme.  It gets posted to our library website after it is published in the
paper: 
http://www.lancaster.lib.pa.us/lcl/cwp/view.asp?a=1152&Q=464733&lclNav=|3030
7|30313|. Sometimes when I'm struggling to come up with titles I wonder if
it's worth it, but then someone will come in with their clipped column and I
say, yep. A list of football books last fall even rated as one of the most
watched on the paper's online site. Anything with Joe Pa will get attention
in Pennsylvania. Since the Lancaster papers serve as regional papers, not
just the city, it has been impossible to get anything more.

In a library not that far away I had a regular column in the local weekly.
It went so well that a neighboring town's newspaper hired me to write a
column.  Unfortunately after two years they bumped me for Andy Rooney.
Seems he was cheaper.  Ah, well, fame is fleeting.

Sue Bowser
Manager, Adult Services
Lancaster Public Library
125 N. Duke St.
Lancaster, PA 17602
(717) 394-2651 x117
Fax (717) 394-3083
sbowser at lancaster.lib.pa.us

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