Sigh. It is easy not to blog, I find. Too much going on day to day to leave much behind. I’ll take yet another stab at it, though. Sorry about the extended silence!

It looks like the University Libraries blog service is now up and live. I didn’t really follow through with any blogging in the past couple weeks, so I’d better get on the ball. I do want to congratulate the team in our Digital Libraries Development Lab for getting this service off the ground. We will be introducing the service to two University Senate committees in the next two weeks and I hope that we can help them grasp what an exciting opportunity for scholarly communication this represents. Kudos to Shane and Company for nurturing this concept!

Well, I had to get rolling some time. I set up Mary’s blog a year ago and Alex has been blogging for quite a while. Today a wonderful presentation by Shane about blogs at the university for LLC made it clear that I can’t stay on the sidelines. I’ve been encouraging Shane and the Lab to pursue this course and I do believe blogs are an exciting new tool in the scholarly quiver, but it is time to get my feet wet. So here is a first entry. I wonder if there will be a second.