Yes yes, another NEKLS blog!
Yes yes, another NEKLS blog!
I love all of the images used in the Osage City Public Library’s blog – pretty and colorful! The blog promotes current events at the library, which seems like a perfect way to use a library blog.
Erica at the Silver Lake Library has also joined the library blog revolution… AND she’s got a brand new slick website!
See her blog!
See her Library website!
Silver Lake Website
We’ve been receiving lots of comment spam in the last day or 2. I guess that’s good because it means someone (or something) is reading our blog. In order to separate the wheat from the chaff, however, I’ve enabled a most useful WordPress plugin called SpamKarma 2. So far it’s been immensely helpful in helping to control the numbers of spam (and you probably didn’t notice that it was there, all the spams got moderated and so had to go through SuperLiz and got filtered by me) that come to the blog.
If your comment should happen to not appear, don’t fret. I’ll get a notify that you posted and that it was held back and rest assured that I’ll get it up as soon as I see it.
Questions? Comments?
Who says staff blogs aren’t useful. These folks clearly know how to use their blog, check out this post from September 14, 2005.
This issue no doubt affects all staff. 
I love this library blog as an example of what libraries can do on their weblogs. I like how every post is preceded by what the post talks about, such as “Book: The Whale and the Supercomputer” or “Website: Wise Giving Alliance”
I just think it’s a good way to get your librarianism out there for folks to really appreciate. I like to think of it as letting your librarian light shine.
An excellent, if older, tutorial on how to use blogs to promote your library’s services. NEKLS has several libraries that are running blogs, jump on the train.
Google now has a blog search tool . Here’s what Google has to say about the new tool:
“Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you’re looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice”.
Richmond Public Library has now joined the blog world, too!
Found this on right here on our own blog, in the comment section. Winchester Public Library has started a simple blog for patron information. The interface is clean and helpful, and all the resources you need are right there.
Congrats to Sue in Winchester for taking the initiative and really going after getting into her patrons’ space!
Check it out at www.winchesterlibrary.blogspot.com
