Terri’s Class Blog

 http://burbanklibrary.blogspot.com/

I visited a few library weblogs and I see the advantages of them but also some disadvantages.  It looks like Burbank began their blog pretty recently, September 07.  There has been alot of work done to it, stuff posted and multiple categories developed.  It appears that several people contribute to it, one person seems to post everything on a given page so they must have their areas of responsibility.  The main blog page is a listing of upcoming community events that have been posted by many different people–maybe the event holders?

This blog is aimed at the general public, library users, adults and children.  It has been kept up well, it is up to date and has been posted to pretty regularly, although the pictures in the Flickr picture link are from Summer 07–time to update those, I think. 

I like the fact that the blog is informative and people can respond to it.  At this time, however, I could find only one comment made to any of the postings.  Blogging’s draw seems to be that it is a website designed to be interactive, which is great.  I guess the question is how long should the time and energy be spent inputting information if there are no comments being made.  In that case, should the librarians just stick with the website?  As to that, I was disappointed that there was no clear link to the blog from the Burbank Public Library website, I found it by accident under the heading “news and reviews.”  If they really want the blog to take off, I’d suggest a clear direct link from the website. 

 

Finally Made It!

Well, after several days of trying with edublog, I finally chose an alternative blogging source.  It was rated as the GOLD medal winner of blog source choices.  Yea!!

I’m Terri Mitus, and this is my next to last course.  Hopefully, I’ll be graduating in January and finally be done with school—for a while, at least.  I am currently Acting Youth Services Librarian in the Massachusetts library that I’ve been working in since 2000.  Prior to this past January, I had been Assistant Youth Services Librarian.  My boss left and I was lucky enough to slip into the position, provided I sped up my degree and finished up by December.  So I’ve doubled up on classes–three more to go, this one and another I’m taking this summer and Eval. and Research this fall.

I’m looking forward to this course, although I must admit, even though I am comfortable with technology, I haven’t taken it as far as blogging before and this is all new to me. 

See you all around the blogosphere…(did I use that in the right way??)