[Publib] Bloggy-come-lately.

[K.G. Schneider]

What a great (collective) voice in this blog! I talk and teach about library
blogs, and I think readers are attracted to a) voice and b) something new
and c) something that reminds them of themselves. 

I think your decision to do a group blog, and to focus it on interesting
reading, is very wise. There are many ways to do a blog right (and sometimes
there *is* no group!), but readers love to read about reading. (So do
writers, though in that case it's called procrastination.) 

I'm teaching my librarian-focused "Writing on the Web" workshop tomorrow -
one of my very favorite things to do - and I'll mention this blog. I've
added it to my del.icio.us set for this class.

Karen G. Schneider

> 
>      So the Seattle Public Library finally has a
> blog. Go figure. It is called Shelf Talk, and can
> be found at http://shelftalk.spl.org.
> 
>      It has been (and continues to be)
> interesting starting up a library blog well past
> the time when every library on earth felt they'd
> better have one, as one looks about at the
> dessicated corpses of discarded library blogs
> dotting the landscape and justly wonders 'what
> exactly do we want a blog for, anyway?'
> 
>      It is still very much early days, but what
> excites me most about where we're headed with our
> blog is our efforts to reach out to all the
> interesting, informed people we have working at
> the library who will be posting in this
> collective. Of course, as you all know, it is
> usage statistics that will help buy us the time
> to give this thing a decent period to grow and
> develop.
> 
> So, um, add us to your blogrolls if you link to
> other library blogs. Subscribe to our feed. Let's
> see how this goes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David Wright
> Fiction Department
> Seattle Public Library
> 
> 
> 
> 
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