Saturday, April 7, 2007

Library Blogs

I'm not a blog reader, so this is new to me. I liked the content of the Lansing Teen blog (http://lansinglibraryteen.blogspot.com/), but I thought the links to the library main page was not prominent. There's an RSS feed AND when I was on, the "I'm online send me a message" icon was up. Cool! Too bad my computer wouldn't let me do so.

Couldn't get into libraryforlife with the given link--had to go into libraryforlife.org and then click on the game blog. Well! They're serious about their gaming! Once you're in though, how do you get out to go back to the library page? Back arrow, back arrow, back arrow.

I like the aadl blog (http://www.aadl.org/catalog/books) because I discovered a new author and that he (before he died!) was married to KK Beck--who I don't think has written anything for the past several years. However, the navigation isn't that great--once you leave the book blog (say, to find out which library this is), there was no link to go back other than the back arrow.

Now, the Waterboro blog (www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm) is nice in that it has the info to get into the NY Times and Chicago Tribune without having to register yourself. It has a nice navigation bar along the side, but I like Ann Arundel's top navigation bar as being more visible.

The Western Springs (http://www.westernspringshistory.org/street/grand/) site is cool--we're trying to create an online photo-history file for Orange County that will allow the same type of interactivety.

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