I reviewed some of my favorite libraries web pages/blogs and found most of the blogs to contain nothing more than a vehicle for library announcements, similar to a calendar of scheduled events. The exception was the Teen Blog at the Westport Connecticut Public Library. Jaina Lewis, the Teen Services Librarian has authored the Teen Blog since 2006. Considering the complexities of capturing a teen audience in a library, Ms. Lewis categorizes her blog postings by authors, books, DVD’s, Did You Know, events, gaming, lists, movies, music, special topics, television and You Tube. She incorporates some form of media (images, video and audio) in each posting which clearly captures the reader’s attention.

Whereas the author’s intended audience are teens, the variety of topics that she covers, would be of interest for many adults. The recent posts included a synopsis of The Guinness Book of Records; audio/video (You Tube) feed about the local high school book fair; information about the online Facebook game Scrabulous and reviews of recently released books.

Although there were seven postings for the month of May, the archives revealed less frequent postings, some months having only one posting. It is not clear as to why the inconsistencies, be it time constraints or lack of material. In addition, I did not see any comments to her postings, nor did I see any remarks by the author encouraging the readers to comment! Regardless I thoroughly enjoyed the variety of her postings. Check it out Westport Public Library TEEN Blog

HI everyone……Well I must say this – blogging – trip is much more complicated than I had ever imagined.
Hi, I am Kathi Blum and Zygelle is my cat. This is my 11th ILS course and I am very excited to be challenged by Web 2.0. Somewhere during the past three years of working full time and going to school I missed the whole Web 2.0 enchilada! Well maybe not entirely, but this is my first blogging adventure and I certainly hope I can live up to the challenge. I think I am pretty savvy when it comes to the web and technology. I go back to the days of DOS, so I have pretty much been on the Internet bandwagon from the days of Web 1.0.
I am an employed registered nurse and, no, I am not currently working in a library. The dream is to pursue a library position once I complete the program at the end of the year. K.