Well Hello World! indeed…

So why? Why Yet Another Library Blog? To be sure, good-old-fashioned ego and self-promotion figure into it. Some part of me must believe that my thoughts are so gosh-darned important that it is my duty to make sure that they blaze upon the internets forever…

But why now? Well, we can’t all be early adopters, can we? Somewhere between the past (”Blog? What the hell is that?”) and the future (”Oh, you should see Tasha’s MySpace account — she writes so well for an eight-year-old!”) is the point (I call it, “the present”) where every serious librarian has to think about blogging.

This has nothing to do with chasing buzz-words or calling myself a “blogger” (ick). Instead, it is about being an active participant in the discussions that are shaping my profession and its future. The largest portion of the professional reading I do now comes packaged in RSS feeds, and I suspect I am not alone. It seems that one of the best ways of wading in and making my own contribution is to start blogging myself.