Must Read: Marin County Free Library Blog
I'm collecting links to really good library blogs lately, and Marin County's is my current favorite, and here's why, so far:
- I love that they explain for their patrons, in plain English, what a blog is. That's courteous and smart.
- They put all their electronic contact information directly under the "what's a blog/RSS?" stuff in the right-hand sidebar. This is both cool and appealing to tech-savvy users, who will be the first to catch onto their blog initiative, anyway.
- They use their blog to showcase services, collections, and electronic tools that their patrons may not be aware of. They also use it to provide mini-tutorials on using their online catalogue. Good marketing without an ounce of bombast.
- Every single post would make me, as an online patron of MCFL, want to ask a librarian for more follow-up information. That's some good blogging right there.
Brava!
3 Comments:
At 4:07 PM,
Librarian said…
Hey thanks! Sarah Houghton (AKA the Librarian in Black) here. I'm one of the blogging librarians here at MCFL, and I really appreciate your praise. We work very hard to keep our library blog current & useful, and I'm so glad that somebody's diggin' it :)
At 4:39 PM,
Sophie Brookover said…
Oh, what a small world. I read your blog (though not as often as I ought or would like to, or I'd have connected those dots much earlier)! Thanks for the thanks -- it's my pleasure to highlight others' good work. Rock on!
At 9:32 PM,
J G Online said…
MCFL is really doing very well. I am trying to follow Sophie's post and dig sth out of MCFL. For the 2nd note, I didn't find the link of "What's a blog/RSS" Sophie mentioned. Are you talking about "Syndication" and "What is the XML & RSS Business"? Or they made some changes with the right-side bar?
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