Public Library Blogs for Kids and Teens

All right. Having looked at some of the school library blog functions, it seems like it might be useful to consider public library blog functions. I've started this post several times and kept running into the same challenge. I just couldn't see distinct functions in the same way that school library blogs seemed to work. In my mind, unlike school library blogs which seem to have an array of functions that they cover, sometimes all at once, sometimes very distinctly, the function of public library blogs aimed at children and teens seems to fall primarily in the “all-purpose” category. (It’s worth noting that many of the following blogs exist in addition to the public library’s main website, and this may well affect the capacity of the contributors as well as the blog's content.) A few examples with highlights include the following:

Tufts Library from Weymouth Public Library:
Lots of different updates, book reviews, websites of interest to teens, etc.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – More of the same, but from teen contributors, also includes links to popular teen author websites

Coshocton Public Library
Includes updates from what the teen book group has been reading
Blog Without a Library wiki.

tags: school library, public library blog, school library blog