Even librarians get writers block or they should be given the opportunity to say they have writers block—particularly when they have been negligent about keeping up their blog or have just been sort of lazy about the matter.
I’ll be the first to admit, that when Booklios was first formulated—based on my belief that librarians should write (something) and be on the cutting edge of Web 2.0—the intent was to churn out one article a week. Yes an article: one with emotion, meaningful literary content and completely unlike the typical three sentence entries so popular in the blogosphere. The rationale for these “tweet -like” dispatches according to blogging apologists, theorists and authors is that busy people (mostly Americans) don’t have the time to read dense James Joyce like prose.
The person that reminded me that Booklios as well as the other two library blogs had been languishing in obscurity for over a year and a half was a former, regular patron. This patron said he liked my previous entries and that I should continue to write.
After getting on the bus (public transportation is a great way to save money Monday-Friday) with said library patron in tow, I immediately came up with a myriad of excuses as to why Booklios had fallen prey to lack of literary attentiveness: 1. We are short-staffed at my library location, 2. I’ve been doing a lot of programming as of late (which takes time), 3. I’m soley focusing on the patrons these days (so I can not write and/or think about what to write for a blog) and, 4. I’ve been really tired after helping so many people use the computer all day. He listened carefully and smiled politely like my second grade teacher, after she had heard twenty, sugar-loving, children tell her what their mothers had prepared for dinner the night before.
The bus finally arrived at my designated stop; the patron’s admonishments and encouragement still fresh in my head. Nothing to do except be like Mike on the Nike commercial “ and Just Do it.”!
