An interesting read

Despite the fact that I publish a regular column in my local newspaper that is read by people I know and see every week, and despite the fact that I used to have a website at About.com, where total strangers read my stuff every week, I am experiencing some serious stage fright at writing anything in this, my first attempt at a blog.

That said, I'm going to throw caution to the winds and start.

I didn't really know much about blogs two weeks ago, I just knew that they're supposed to be cool, and Gary Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury featured a character blogging for a political candidate last fall. But I thought it would be interesting to see if blogging could be good for my library. I work part time in a public library as a sub at the circ desk, the ref desk, and in the children's room, and also as a ref sub in public library of a neighboring town.

So I signed up for a continuing ed workshop at Simmons College, and here I am. Of course I just finished the semester on Tuesday, took Wednesday to recover, and now it's 8:33 pm and I have no idea how far I'll get before I crash for the night. I'd like to figure out how to put together a blog for my library, maybe for Reader's Advisory to start. I'm going to have to figure out how to do the technical stuff...I'm more of a content person, but once I get going I like to tinker a bit.

If I can fend off the stage fright.