Newspaper editor as blogger: Lesson for top librarians

David H. Rothman writes “When the Greensboro News & Record ran a popular bus driver’s obit on the front page of the final edition, it accidentally omitted the continuation on an inside page. In the past there would have been just a rerun of the story and a formulaic explanation. You’d never have seen a personal note from Editor John Robinson appearing the same day in a blog.

OK, now here’s the library angle. Does anyone know of top librarians of big-city libraries doing their own blogs? Perhaps explaining new services or problems with the old? Or sharing enthusiasm for certain authors? Must everything be library-impersonal? More at TeleRead.”