From the Morrill Memorial Library: What's All the Fuss About Blogs?

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

What's All the Fuss About Blogs?

What is a blog, anyway? Why read them, why write them. In short, why care?

Online definitions of the word “blog” differ. Marketingterms.com defines a blog simply as “a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.” Another online definition defines a blog as a “personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption.” Well, consume we do. Blogs can be found on all newspaper and magazine Web sites, conference and political Web sites; there are millions of them and they are everywhere and can be used for all types of purposes. From the Daily News Transcript, From the Library, Charlotte Canelli, columnist

Read the entire article in the From the Library column in the Daily News Transcript.

Who We Are

Since 2009, Library Director, Charlotte Canelli and over 30 other librarians and library staff at the Morrill Memorial Library in Norwood, Massachusetts have been writing columns of approximately 1,000 words each week. These columns are published in the Norwood Transcript & Bulletin in print and online on Wickedlocal.com. Over 535 columns are archived here on this blog.

In May 2015, and again in May 2017, the Library's submission to the Massachusetts Library Association Public Relations Awards won first place in the News category. A representative 24 columns were submitted for 2013-2014 and again in 2015-2016 for this biennial award. In May 2019, the Library's submission to the MLA Public Relations Awards won an Honorable Mention in the Print category.

Library Director Charlotte Canelli began writing a weekly column for the Daily News Transcript (now the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin) in February 2009. Other Morrill Memorial Library librarians in Norwood, Massachusetts soon joined her - writing guest columns at least once a year or once every eight weeks. The columns have been published weekly in Norwood Transcript and Bulletin and online at WickedLocal.com/Norwood for ten years. Spiral bound books of our columns are cataloged in the Morrill Memorial Library - one for each year. Over 520 columns are archived here. Visit the library website, www.norwoodlibrary.org for more information about the Morrill Memorial Library.