What's in a blog...

After looking through the examples of blogging libraries for week 1 I have decided that there are two key ideas that I appreciate. The first thing that made an impace, and was also mentioned several times this week in webcasts, screencasts, and readigs, is the idea that new information should be posted continually. I think that students and users are more likely to be interested in something that is dynamic, and that includes reading new information about the library.

I was very impressed with the Virginia Commonweath University's blog. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I like that they have a comments blog. This way they are able to join in a dilogue. The patrons can voice their thoughts and opinions, and the library has an opportunity to respond to those comments. I think it is important for the library to hear directly from their users in order to make the best environment for them.

One blog that was a great example, but wasn't what I expected was the Kansas State University library blogs. I thought it was interesting for each department to have a blog, but was a little bit saddened that is was specifically administrative. I had thought that the blog would be for the patrons. I'm also interested in finding out why they chose to use a blog instead of a wiki format.