Quotes

I've decided to begin doing a Quote of the Day in my blog where I will note a particularly interesting, funny, or clever quote or conversation I heard in the library that particular day. I'll start with an oldie, but a goody from the Children's Room:

"I'm looking for a book, and uhhh.... I think it has a fish on the front..."
"Do you remember the title at all or the author or the subject?"
"No, just that it had a fish on the front that was colorful."

I was stumped, but Miss Laura saved the day by miraculously knowing the exact book that the girl was looking for called "Rainbow Fish."

Weeks One and Two!

Although I am not part of the official Arcadia Public Library staff, I feel lucky to be able to participate in this Library 2.0 Challenge. In a previous library that I worked in, they had a program very similar to this one, but restricted it to supervisors and people in administration so it's great that everyone is getting involved here. I browsed the topics for this 11-week challenge and I have some experience with most of the programs and sites, but I hope that this challenge will allow me to learn about more of their features and to be more effective. I especially think that it's great that we are introduced to these tools in relation to how they can and should be used to make our library better.

I thought it was very simple to make a blog especially since I have created blogs in the past (only to stop writing in them a couple months later). Picking a name is difficult especially since people don't delete blogs that they have abandoned like Pam suggested we do. Although I have failed at coming up with novel blog ideas in the past, I think that if I had a real purpose and audience (again, from today's lecture) I could become a regular blogger. Obviously a library blog is a perfect example.

I am not as familiar with the patrons of Arcadia Public Library, but if I were to suggest a way to make the library blog a resource that people use more I would think that frequent posts coupled with fun features such as surveys, pictures, and library riddles or jokes is a good start.

See you around the library and in cyberland!