KA's number one blog

Taking the road of least resistance for my first blog entry, I have chosen to answer the form questions. Feel free to yawn now.

• What do you hope to learn from the program?

I would like to get a good overview of social networking tools to understand them from a programming perspective

• What do you think about Lifelong Learning?

Lifelong learning is fundamental to the work we do at SLQ in children's and young peoples programs. There are many learning styles and our learners of the future will be users of digital culture so as a subscriber to life long learning it is important to be aware of trends that are influencing the way information is found and shared.

• What other blogs have you discovered? What do you like about them?

The Corner blog is an excellent resource for our casual staff to share ideas and strategies. It is also a great way for our team to get inspired and for CYPP staff to give feedback, ideas and further research directions. This then informs future programming and operations. As a communcation tool for this purpose it is excellent.

• Can you see a use for blogs inside the Library?

We could expand this idea to our programming and create more opportunities for individual project blogs, as well as creating more links to other blogs, e.g. JOL Blog for Amazing Displays could link to a Summer Holiday Blog etc. The only limit is resourcing this idea. It would be great to profile our programs to a wider audience.

• How about blogging for a client audience?

We already have programs that use blogging in some of our programs, but there is possible more scope to expand this.