How Blogging Contributes to the class

I have started and stopped at blogging for quite some time. My first initial efforts at blogging came with my meager attempts to post some of my poetry to my facebook page. While not exactly a blog and certainly not enough space to post long rants onto a space it was the beginnings of learning how to carry on a running conversation with people. What I did not realize then was the usefullness of such a tool. And eventually my blogging days on facebook went by the wayside.

Later on I attempted to post blogs for my work. There were several of us trying to use a blog post at our work to communicate more globally with the people that were in our office. The problem with this blog posting was that no one really wanted to do it on a regular basis. Besides, trying to communicate with a local community that you are face to face with everyday seemed a little ridiculous when all you had to do was to walk 10 feet to tell the other person what you were thinking or what was going on. So our blog postings eventually fizzled.

With this class, however, I can see the usefulness of such a posting mechanism. While not constrained by the limits of any size posting, we can communicate more globally between people who are at quite a distance from one another. It is fascinating to be able to have a running conversation about different topics, especially ones that are of interest. Furthermore, with having each member of the class participate, you get the depth of experience from every member of the class on every topic discussed. And while I may not have anything to contribute to every discussion, it is worthwhile to be able to have the information at my fingertips to peruse through and use. I believe this kind of running conversation is worthwhile having and communicating in. Hopefully it will help me to establish this kind of communication with other members of the library community to discuss and contribute more globally as we are a more interconnected society, yet the libraries goals are primarily uniform: to provide free access to as much information, to as many people who are seeking it.