RSS/Thing 8

Bloglines, here I come. I set up my account and subscribed to a smorgasbord of feeds.
For my "suggested 3" I went with OCLWebthings, Unshelved, and the NYT (Book Review to be exact). I found some great job essentials and subscribed to feeds from Booklist, After Words (C-Span's BookTV), PublishersNewswire, and former colleague Liz Burns. Liz's blog has already given me a title for a book that I simply MUST buy for my niece. Thanks, Liz - a small ballerina in Massachusetts will be ever so happy I read your blog! Then I went for a few french otter/loutre francaise themes, with a feed from the Monterey Bay Aquarium (where I may retire to care for sea otter pups) and French-Word-a-Day. Today's word is la laque, which is hairspray, originating, I suppose, from some form of lacquer?! That may come in handy if I go to France one day, where I'm sure some uberchic person will take one look at my curls and suggest a local purveyor of la laque. Now I will know they are not trying to give me directions to a lake. Finally, a totally fun feed - from the Dancing With the Stars blog. One never knows when a late-breaking sequin event might be fed to my Bloglines account!

There are so many reader-based blogs that libraries can help customers use. Seeing the strength and passion of the online reading community definitely show me that our readers are a critical customer base. I am trying to brainstorm some ways I can use these new skills in the future to market my beloved non-fiction!