First post for a first time blogger

This is it. My first post.

Acknowledging that this is my first post makes it all too clear what I hope (and need) to learn from the program. I hope to learn about a heap of things that have passed me by of late. And I used to appear clever because I can use a digital camera. Seriously, this is a brilliant opportunity for me to catch up a bit with Web 2.0.

Lifelong Learning has even more urgency now that technological change is so rapid. For libraries we need to keep up, or even better keep ahead, of what is out there or we cease to be relevant.

In my inexperience as a blogger I have only visited the blogs suggested by this program. I can't help noticing that there is not a great deal of response or comments to the library 'newsletter' type blogs. Yet the blog for the letters of the WW1 soldier had resulted in many exchanges.
The challenge for libraries is to create the online environment where people want to engage with us. In the online world we need to offer what libraries do uniquely, rather than jumping in and trying to do what other organisations can do better. An example is the library website children's pages, where I can't help wondering why a child would visit the library website for a puzzle or game instead of the Disney or Sesame St website with more bells and whistles.

I hope that this program can help me find the answers to how libraries can be part of the online world in more than just having a presence. If our Libraries have blogs I want them to be keenly sought out, visited often and resulting in lots of postings.