Pushing Librarians Into Public Awareness

Marylaine Block on using weblogs in libraries. Good advice:

“I really think weblogs are too valuable a tool for libraries NOT to use them. But library directors need to understand that a weblog is a commitment to the user group it serves. It’s not a frill, to be done on the fly when a librarian happens to have a spare moment — that guarantees that blogs will updated shortly after hell freezes over or librarians finish reading all the professional journals that have been routed to them, which ever happens first. Don’t start a blog unless you’re willing to make maintaining it an important part of librarians’ job descriptions and evaluations.”