Investigative Exercise 1: Blogs Sarah Houghton-Jan.

This blog appears to mostly be a useful source of information for library workers of what the public in general has come to expect from libraries and how they can use modern technology’s to draw the general public back to libraries it contains slides show that talk at length about web 2.0 and how it can be uses in the library, how the library should view the public and alia issues

below each blog there is the opportunity for each reader to leave questions of issues related to the post for the blog writer to look over and answer

The post I am looking at involves some of the issues that people have stated over and over again tend to drive them away from library or make them less willing to use the library’s resources for example the information desk
She does this by quoting Behemoth a new steam punk fiction book written by scott Westerfield the quote relate the main character’s experiences with a fictional library drawing close parrels to real life modern libraries

She ends the post by giving the reader an opportunity to think about the different obstacles in their own library that might be alienating the public