Comments on: Walt Crawford’s Public Library Blogs: essential reading if your library is (even thinking about) blogging http://virtuallyalibrarian.com/2008/12/13/walt-crawfords-public-library-blogs-essential-reading-if-your-library-is-even-thinking-about-blogging/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:49:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: walt crawford http://virtuallyalibrarian.com/2008/12/13/walt-crawfords-public-library-blogs-essential-reading-if-your-library-is-even-thinking-about-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-19734 walt crawford Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:52:03 +0000 http://virtuallyalibrarian.com/?p=81#comment-19734 Wow. Thanks for the comment--just about the first there's been on this book (or at least the first favorable), in about a year since it came out. I was just about to put the book out of print; maybe I'll modify that decision, at least for the downloadable version. Your penultimate paragraph makes a lot of sense, particularly for library blogs (as opposed to liblogs). I would love to continue this and the parallel academic library blog study, with some different levels of analysis, since even on a purely-external basis you can find out a lot. But I can't do it based on the proceeds from selling fewer than a hundred books (that's both studies combined): It's a prohibitively poor use of my time. So, barring sponsorship (from a library school, vendor, or whoever), it's not going to happen. Sigh. Wow. Thanks for the comment–just about the first there’s been on this book (or at least the first favorable), in about a year since it came out. I was just about to put the book out of print; maybe I’ll modify that decision, at least for the downloadable version.

Your penultimate paragraph makes a lot of sense, particularly for library blogs (as opposed to liblogs).

I would love to continue this and the parallel academic library blog study, with some different levels of analysis, since even on a purely-external basis you can find out a lot. But I can’t do it based on the proceeds from selling fewer than a hundred books (that’s both studies combined): It’s a prohibitively poor use of my time. So, barring sponsorship (from a library school, vendor, or whoever), it’s not going to happen. Sigh.

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