Tradin' in my Feather-Duster for a Quill-Pen (figuratively speaking, of course)

The world is going through a paroxysm of change that hasn't been seen since Gutenberg. People are, more and more, "voting with their mice", selecting electronic information services, social networking options and even personal reading selections online from the "virtual" library of everything from the latest news to the current buzz in to the hottest new story offerings.

Recent posts in one of my colleagues blogs (http://talkingtech.edublogs.org/) has me thinking again about the balance between traditional library services and the emerging information-gathering and idea-generating power of Web2.0. The bottom line for me, though, still that Even Libraries 2.0 Need Material

Put another way, even Libraries 2.0 need WRITERS.

I've been tinkering with my own personal writing now for two and a half years. I decided at some point that rather than just REACTING to the things I'm finding in my Reading world (both in print and online) that it was time I became PROACTIVE about the things that are important to me. I've been a librarian now for more than 3 decades (IMPOSSIBLE! - but True) And so this foray into the blogging world. Let the (writing) Games begin!!!